Don’t forget to put the seat down when you’re done (yes, I’m well trained :roll: ).
djm
I have an album pressed by the NSP Society, the first track of which is the fifteen-year-old Becky Taylor making the NSPs sound like the fifteen-year-old Seamus Ennis would have if he could have. One hell of a piper.
Gosh yes!! I remember that. It was funny because I never really wanted to play the NSP. I always wanted Uilleann but couldn’t persuade the music teacher at school to let me have some. I eventually got NSP (from school!!) and I though why not, its the same bag and bellows stuff, so I just played them how I wanted to play them (not traditional NSP at all which upset a few at the NSP society at the time). I learnt basic Uilleann fingering from a book, and the bag and bellows stuff from the NSP’s so when I did eventually get hold of a chanter I could play a tune straight away (well sort of anyway!)
The track you are referring to is available as an MP3 download from the website because someone else was asking for it a few months ago so it got dug out of my (rather dodgy) LP collection!
Becky,
Nice to see someone up and about same time as meself!! Kids eh!! 
Is that the Crowley on your mp3’s, and was that what you were using playing with Spence?
Alan
Great playing Becky, have you ever played at one of Steve’s soirées in Chorlton?
John S
don’t know if i have… if i get an invite i would though! 
You mean when I played with Spence a while back at Stainsby when one of the regulators popped out at a critical moment?!! No I don’t think that was the Crowley set.
As for the MP3’s I tend to use whatever is working best at the time so its a bit of a mixed bag, Live in Rochdale is the Crowley (minus chanter cos it always plays sooo sharp).
Sorry Alan, no I tell a lie, I’ve just checked the photos and its not the Crowley I was playing at Rochdale on the MP3’s 
No need to get up set Glands, 
on the positive side of the instrument, its a pleasure even to hand one, the feel and weight of the Hunter D chanters is just something else, it feels so right when you play one, Sean Potts plays a Hunter blackwood chanter which has a strident sound, Peters ebony concert D chanters are sweeter in tone & quietor, I have yet to hear any other chanter to come anywhere near having the quality of sound that comes from a Peter Hunter Concert D, and when you hit the bottom D its just frightening, they are rare to get hold of but every now and then the odd chanter does appear for sale, but there not the easiest of chanters to reed up, hand rolled staples only, they won’t play perfectly with staples made from tubing, no way, so anyone who has one you must hold on to the old reed or staple when you need a new reed made, but I’m sure that it will not be to long till an other maker comes up with even a better chanter than Peter Hunters concert D, So I’ve heard romours, 
as far as flat sets go, I must admit I like Andreas Rogges C chanter that Liam O’flynn plays it very,very nice, I’m not very keen on the B chanter its a bit dull & grim, so C is the best of the flat sets for me.
Time to enjoy the evening air again. 
You forget to mention the lignum jobs… God, I remember him literally setting fire to a reed to set that gasket sealant stuff (or whatever it was) on the binding. Scaryyyyyy.
Alan
Your right Alan, Lignum don’t mention it or the pink chanter, Don’t know what it was what he put on the reed whipping to seal it but the smell after he had done it, reminded me of a badly burnt electric plug, what a job you had if you had to take it apart, 
I just seal mine with PTF tape, 30p a roll nice & easy, looks good and if you need to alter the reed there no problem taking apart, I like the way Peter keeps his cane in baskets in his setting room,and if you dare touch it he would go ape’s shit,we used to tease him all the time picking up and looking at it, does he still keep it that way?, haven’t seen his for while, must admit he’s a great character.
Time enjoy the Northumberland evening air.
Its Green Hermatite, motorbike gasket sealant. You heat it up to set it. Mark Dixon a superb reedmaker from Keighley West Yorkshire also uses it on occasion.