The Bagpipes and the Recorder!!

[drobin]

So a general question to the pipers out there. I just started on the PC, and was a bit suprised by the back pressure From reading the other post I gather that the Pipes have less resistance?

[highlander_Daz]

When I started learning i used to practice till my lips couldnt seal around the PC any longer -it soon gets easier, on the GHB if you time the breating correctly then its possible to play continually for very long periods, I like a fairly strog reed as it gives good tone and a significant difference in pressure between the drones and chanter reeds makes for nice clean striking in, I use a Colin Winstanley universal blowpipe which gives very good airflow and very comfortable, I find that my pipes are not hard to blow but to a non piper would find them almost impossible to blow as its down to the timing, I use Cleartone Drone reeds from Ireland and David Chesney chanter reeds and my pipes have great tone, Ive compared tham to many others and they are monsters they are Colin Winstanley handmades.

Just hammer the PC, and a I used to get the logan tutor book and read and play every tune in it even if you dont know the tune just to practice your reading and get a metranome, I developed a Killer GDE using a metranome for Banjo Breakdown
Heres my beloved pipes !!
Colin Winstanley handmades with an early 80s Warmac Chanter and Ross goretex bag


the ends are all cork no hemp!!

[beloitpiper]

the ends are all cork no hemp!!

That must be brutal with wheather changes. I'll stick to my hemp, I get more control with it.

[highlander_Daz]

Ive played em in all weathers and temps and as long as they have cork grease on they are never any trouble, I used hemp for years but Id never go back, Gordon Duncan used to use PTFE tape I tried it and wasnt keen sometimes use it to lift a chanter reed but thats all,

[MadBagpiper]

That must be brutal with wheather changes. I'll stick to my hemp, I get more control with it.

i know man, arg that woud suck!

[highlander_Daz]

Honestly dont knock it , its really good, as long as you keep them greased with cork grease from the music shop thay are great. cork regains its size whne uncompressed so dismantling the drones once a month overnight keeps them airtight.