Here is his official Facebook page, he’s very friendly and his english is quite good, never played one his whistles though, bit to expensive for me, would love to buy one though, the design is gorgeous.
Hi everybody! Alexander here) My friend just sent me a link on that topic) Thanks for kind words about my work! You free to ask me any questions here or in skype/e-mail or pm. E-mail: alexander.piper@gmail.com and Skype: alexander.karavaev4
Just let me know if you want to see additional photos or audio. I have some on my VK social net page ( https://vk.com/whistles_workshop , https://vk.com/albums-74845461 ) , but don’t sure it will be handy for everybody to visit russian pages and translate it in google translator) I will try to start a multilanguage web site this year but there is so much work around now…
Glad to see my instruments after all those years on good-old C&F
Mostly i was in Uilleann pipes part of forum, so it’s good time and reason to say “hello!” to whistle part)
Alex,
Welcome to the C & F Whistle Forum. Your whistles are beautiful to the eye and having listened to you play with Brian Finnegan the word “masterful” comes immediately to mind. Great craftsmanship and art combined.
At the moment i don’t making high Eb, D, C. I need to remake some machinery and special devices for that. Hope to start making them in next 6 month. It’s very complicated and not fast process. All news about it you can check on my web pages
I took some historycal drawings, redraw them in vector format and then my cnc with 4-axis engraved it on whistles body. If you’ll look at workshop gallery on facebook, there some pictures of process)