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I don't know if this has been linked here before but I just stumbled across a BBC local radio item about the latest piper in the Doran family and I thought it might be of interest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/music/wo ... pipe.shtml

Ian Lawther

I have a double Scottish smallpipe chanter made by Colin Ross. As described there are two reeds in a single stock. When I collected it from Colin we discussed the reed setting and he spoke of two views of it. His view (which I have followed) is that the reeds should be set so they are in tune with e...

There is a new bellows piping weekend being launched in January at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia which will include tuition on Northumbrian smallpipes, border pipers, Scottish smallpipes and uilleann pipes (as well as fiddle and flute). Details can be found at http://www.squeezethebag.info

Ian

A few weeks ago I started collecting together assorted piping videos on Youtube in a "channel" I set up there. You can view those I found at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bagpipediscsdotcom as well as I few I have put up myself including Jerry O'Sullivan.

Ian

Thanks for the comments. The plan is to expand the range of uilleann piping CDs as (...if...) the business grows. Part of the reason for the highland piping slant to begin with is basic economics...theres a bigger market and hopefully this will help fund expanding the UP and NSP sections in future. ...

I have just launched an online piping CD (and DVD) store at www.bagpipediscs.com . The main market will be Scottish pipers but I want to be able to supply other pipers as well (and educate the Scottish pipers that there are more - and better - pipes out there). I do not have a large stock of uillean...

Wilkinson and MacCarty trained in musical instrument making at the London College of Furniture which was the main place for training instrument makers. They did not actually make furniture. This is a historical link going back to the days when furniture makers were the people who possessed lathes an...

Didn't Seamus Ennis play a coin set?

Ian

I have seen plans on David Daye's page for plastic regulator reeds. Does anyone have experience of using these or othe plastic reeds in thier regs? I have been having problems with the cane reeds in mine and would like to get them going properly, and this seems one option. What I want to do is break...

Someone I know is looking for a piper for a funeral in Rochester NY in the very near future. If any one can give me leads on UP players in the area I shall be grateful. My contact's father has been ailing for some time and is unlikely to survive another 24 hours. Comsequently there is no set date ye...

Jimmy is both a great piper and a gentleman, but having shared his room at North Hero I would like to add JEEZ CAN THE MAN SNORE!!!!!!

But being a gentleman he had actually brought earplugs along in case his roomy needed them!

Ian