Brian has spent ages working out all these alternatives and has been sharing them at the club.He has now been generous enough to publish them on his website and it makes for quite a read- almost a tutor.Go to howardmusic.co.uk and click on Owners Club and then click on Fingering Chart.Enjoy!
It’s a bit more comprehensive than most others I’ve seen! Almost info overload for a beginner like me, but no chance of getting bored.
Don’t waste your time with these…go see an experienced instructor. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a live instructor demonstration of the ways to play the notes is worth a million. If you have no access to an instructor, then use your ear and let the fingerings be a guide only to get started…and figure out how to get yourself to a tionol. Some fingerings will not work for all chanters…find out what is best for your chanter, skill level, and your very own style.
Does he seriously think he’s going to copywright those little “X|XXX|XXXX|X” charts we use? Here called “Shorthand©”? Wasn’t he the bad guy in one of the Mr. Moto movies?
From the self-proclaimed greatest pipemaker of our times, according to Uillaim. When you going to learn to make chanters that don’t look chewed on, Brian?
Lord-eeee! He’s got one hell of a beaver mouth!
better to look chewed than to sound it! Come on guys why the bitching? It’s a bit sad.
Oi!!!
I hope the copyright police don’t come git me from England since I’ve infringed and used the standard fingerings for an uilleann chanter and posted it to my site! 
I’m going to assume he’s only covering his images and layout - so I can sleep at night!
B~
[quote=“Kevin L. Rietmann”]Does he seriously think he’s going to copywright those little “X|XXX|XXXX|X” charts we use? Here called “Shorthand©”? Wasn’t he the bad guy in one of the Mr. Moto movies?
From the self-proclaimed greatest pipemaker of our times, according to Uillaim. When you going to learn to make chanters that don’t look chewed on, Brian?
Why so negative.? Or do I miss the point. Are you joking. Do you play for the looks. This chewing up is very ergonomic for the thumb.
A truly ignorant and offensive remark, even by Mr Rietmanns standards!
Having plowed through Brians website,if you take away the verbage and the self congratulatory blurb ye will see that there is in fact nothing really new or of note.Indeed it would seem that as there is no picture of regs so I must presume that he is not making them.I remember him walking around Miltown with blank sticks in place of regs,most impressive,not…oh yes the 71 page chart???I got fed up waiting for it to download,why bother with one page when ye can have 71!!!Whats all this about doing papers?
All in all Brian is Brian,he hasn’t changed,nor have his pipes… 
Liam
That’s one ugly stick. Perhaps it plays or sounds well, but he obviously has no eye. Plenty like him around, unfortunately. It is possible to do everything right.
Do you mean my ignorant standards or Mr Rietmann.? Teirw.
About esthetics beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Taste is different for everybody.
Is the work of Howard not good.? If you take the tone of the remarks you should think so. It does not matter. Bad publicity is also publicity. I should be more interested in objective results of a test with clear standards.
I do think the 71 pages are hardly to get. To long for the transfer. But I donot know any maker who has fingering carts on his site this large. And I was supprised to see a C# lower then the bottum D.
Should any of us be using the word “standard” in ANY sentence when we’re talking UPs?
Sorry Kilkee. I was not referring to you!
Mr. Rietmann certianly is not ignorant. He is quite knowlegable and is an excellent piper.
And, the chanter sure does look like somebody took a bite out of it. Go chew on an apple, the first couple of bites out of it will cause it to look like the side of that chanter. I understand that is the way it is intended to be…but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t look like somebody chewed on it so don’t be so sensitive. The fact of the matter is, the chanter is not very asthetically pleasing to me…or many of us for that matter. So what? What’s important for any chanter is that it functions and does what it is supposed to do when played.
Give Mr. Rietmann a break!
To be fair to Brian,I had one of his chanters some while back and it played perfectly well,the use of pillar mounts for keys is fine…but his continually going on about it being innovative is pure bullshit… 
A piper friend Tom from Germany while studying here shewed me a border chanter of his with pillar mounts to give him a larger range of notes..so nothing new here(he was using a kind of Silver flute keywork Boehms)…so having used one of Brians I would rate it 7/10,not great nor bad either and when I sold it ,it was in order to purchase a vastly superior chanter.
Slan go foill
Liam
made by yourself no doubt
Why would I want to buy one of my own??? Are ye a Howard Acolyte by any chance??..nae chance,if ye were, he would have told ye about his medal!!! 
Slan go foill
Liam :roll:
I’ve recently taken delivery of one of Brians new half sets. The chanter plays beautifully, the drones are consistent. I am now awaiting the regulators.
I’m certainly no Paddy Keenan, but I’ve been playing long enough to know a good set when I hear or play them. And these sound fine to me.
I was really suprised at your negativity and destructive comments, I understand free speech and all that, but wouldn’t it be far better to use your time talking up the craft of making and playing this instrument.
To play any musical intrument is special gift, the development of this wonderful instrument is another. All professional or budding instrument makers make it possible for fellow musicians to uplift the spirits of other people.
Brian Howard is a decent man a brilliant engineer and instrument maker, and he gets my vote any time. As for your cynical unjust comments:
No one ever errected a statue to a critic
Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Twain
Or for those on the other side of the pond, Jonathan Swift
