came across these drone reeds...

Uilleann Pipes
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https://kiltsandmore.com/ezee-drone-reeds-for-uilleann-pipes-key-of-d-:p1601EZUP.html

Anybody has experience with these drone reeds? Ezee drone reeds for scottish pipes are pretty good drone reeds but
anybody has an idea how they sound for Uilleann pipes?

Kind regards

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https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/ezeedrone-reeds-caution/76683/2 :smiley:

Bob

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One of my biggest sources for me to make cane UP drone reeds has been pipers who bought Ezee drone reeds and were not happy with the tone. You get a stable note, but it lacks harmonics or “character”. There are a few tricks to using cane reeds, but the sound of cane is clearly superior. They do not sound like their reeds made for GHB. Why use plastic, when cane is less than half the price? Paddy Keenan and other pipers play all around the planet, in all kinds of environments, using all cane reeds in their pipes.

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For what it’s worth, I don’t think there’s a single serious GHB player who uses the bass Ezeedrone reed (no doubt there’s one, just to prove me wrong). They’re not stable or particularly toneful. The tenors though are as good as anything in most drones.

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Ez’s works pretty well with my set.

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Ezee drone reeds are all i use in both my sets,tried cane,ureliable as hell,just saying,they are always rock solid.tone is not bad at all ,my drones sound excellent.same for my highland,and border pipes.

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YMMV. If you like the sound of EZEE drone reeds, use them. Many don’t. Some swear by cane reeds while others swear at them.

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I agree with Ted, cane drone reeds have a richer tonal palette and are much cheaper (even custom-made for you by Ted :wink: ), the tradeoff mainly being ease of initial set-up and stabilizing. But I have friends whose cane drone reeds have worked with minimal or no futzing for many years. I even read somewhere that Seamus Ennis’ cane drone reeds were more or less permanently shellacked into his mainstock with age-hardened cobbler’s wax.

If you do go with the EZEEs, one word of caution: the EZEE tenor reed may have too big a total diameter to fit comfortably into your mainstock. I once tried to “encourage” one into my Sky mainstock, and it got badly stuck. The extraction process destroyed the entire $33 reed but, luckily, not the mainstock.

However, I subsequently used baritone & bass EZEE drones on that set for a couple of years without incident (or with a very interesting drone sound, but that’s in the ear of the beholder).

Regards,
Mick