For those of you who’ve made alot of reeds; which maker’s chanters seem to be the easiest to make reeds for? Is a wide bore easier to re-reed than a narrow bore chanter?
Generally talking about D chanters here.
Marc
On 2002-10-27 16:45, marcpipes wrote:
For those of you who’ve made alot of reeds; which maker’s chanters seem to be the easiest to make reeds for? Is a wide bore easier to re-reed than a narrow bore chanter?
Generally talking about D chanters here.
Marc
Marc,
I think regarding makers, the easiest to reed is your own chanter, as you learn it’s peculiarities, and get used to that particular design.
Re: Narrow Bore D. Though it would be less prone to problems common in Wide Bore (like croaky Back D), it might prove problematic to get the tuning correct (pitch and 8ve tuning), though you should be able to get the correct measurements from the maker.
Personally, I find Flat/Narrow bore easy to correctly pitch, but playability is an issue, probably due to the fact that everything is smaller and fiddly (and it seems there are more Concert sets out there so I’m more versed in those. I think if you need that softer Flat set sound get a flat pitch set!!
Cheers
Alan