If you have a serious question on the Chanter Ben will answer it. He does not have Email however so you will have to call him at his shop.
802.229.0315 (Shop)
..blasphemer…heh…
Hmm…it may indeed be off, its difficult to tell precisely (for me) as the low-quality recording (sorry Paul..no offense intended!) sounded quite distorted. Rather than go through the subjective “sounds to me” I just ran it through my pc tuner and noted the Hertz ratings when the sampling rate was able to pick up individual notes.
By all means, the best solution would be to ask B.K. himself.
“Hmm…it may indeed be off, its difficult to tell precisely (for me) as the low-quality recording (sorry Paul..no offense intended!) sounded quite distorted. Rather than go through the subjective “sounds to me” I just ran it through my pc tuner and noted the Hertz ratings when the sampling rate was able to pick up individual notes” D.
“If you have a serious question on the Chanter Ben will answer it …” Wizz
The bottom note is off to my ears - there is no hard D, that’s what sounds “strange” when you’d normally expect it to be there, but it’s not. As stated earlier it’s probably been fixed/adjusted by now - I have no other serious questions about the chanter. Again fair play to Ben for helping out 
Perhaps the sound is off due to a). amount of compression required to to be able to broadcast on the net, b). some loss or transmission errors during broadcast over the net. I would not trust any lossy recording format like mp3 or mp4 over the net.
djm
This sounds like a great chanter.
The body of it looks like a Leo Rowsome chanter that Mick O’Brien used to have, similar turning, that is
Sounds a bit like it too.
I just had my ears de-waxed and I can hear a hard D fine. In fact theres a few.
And the big long D that the tune ends on, thats hard.
I’m sure whoever buys it will be happy for years to come.
Best of luck to Jerry too!
Tommy
What do you call a “D” with a flick-knife and a leather jacket?
A “Hard D”
Ba-bum-tisch
Yes folks we’re here all week…
I hear two dodgy things going on, and neither have anything to do with the chanter. The first is lossy digital compression artifacting (lending that dizzy, swimmy feeling) and the second is comb filtering from recording in a small, reflective room. Both could veil one’s perception of pitch, especially on something as rich in overtones as a hard D. For the chanter to still sound this good through all the murky soup, I’ll bet the real thing would knock your socks off.
Actually, there was these two brothers, boys actually, and they used to get into these suspicious moods, and they’d investigate, and then they’d get into all these adventures … 
djm
…ouch…
All good points above - but maybe it’s one of those things - you had to be there for. There were 4 digital processes before the video was published, it was recorded on video tape on a consumer product - Panasonic Mini DV - with the on-camera microphone. This is not meant for a detailed critique by ANY stretch. The purpose, fellows, is to have a basic listen to a chanter played in living colour by one of our extraordinarily talented contemporaries. Did y’all notice the second octave?? Guys, and Girls, this one will be one to remember, trust me. It’ll make your liver quiver and your spine shiver 
Anybody want to wager how much this chanter will go for? My guess is $1650.
Sometimes a wet rag will help the reed respond better and sometimes make the situation seem worse than it is. I am hoping that the auction goes great!
way more. the chanter would be worth more than that on a direct purchase and this will be a charity auction.
good luck
meir
fyi,
i have a pretty close version of this stick from benedict, as does jerry. at the catskills recently i got a great chance to play with kara and skip who both have the same model of this chanter (theirs are measured from mick’s o’brien’s rowsome, mine and jerry’s from cillian vallely’s rowsome)… beautiful chanters, particularly in the hands of benedict, kara, jerry, or skip… if i hadn’t already have one of these, i would be going all out on the bidding. best gosh danged thing i have ever played in all honesty.
great video of benedict, but i assure you, the tuning is spot on, and the hard d is solid.
happy bidding
does anybody know what the bid is up to at this time? I am at work an can not acccess Ebay.
Thanks
I don’t believe that its been listed yet…
I think Wizzer will let us know when it goes live. Until then you can peruse a fine selection of other Koehler merchandise 
Any idea when this auction will be starting off?
Sorry for the delay: We are having some trouble with eBay getting it set up as soon as we have it worked out I will post the link.
Sorry for the delay:
We had some other items up that I bid on and since I was also the contact for items so eBay has put a hold on our auction. We are in the process of setting it up with another contact and hopefully that will be complete soon.
Phil
Excellent, thanks for the update. It should be a lively battle for this chanter…
Gentlemen, and women, it will be 'wallets at dawn". 