I’d like to hear everyone’s comments about C chanters and their experience with them. Either having owned one or borrowed one..
Let me know what you think… 
Ah C sets are things of beauty! David P’s Froment set was humming away this past weekend, and sounded great - with the exception of a few of the normal reed issues when travelling from low to higher altitudes. We’ve also got a member of our group out here who plays a Gallagher 3/4 set in C. Great sounding stick, and one that I find particularly easy to play.
David was very kind to allow me to play his Fromment C set at the GNIPC Tionol last month, and to date, it is my favorite to listen to live and in person… but this set is not for the weak of arm, it takes a bit ‘ooomph’ to keep her going. Deadly drones and regs on her!!!
I have a Koehler/Quinn C chanter that is absolutely phenomenal, I’ve played Dr. Lewis Blevin’s beehive K/Q C chanter and it is pretty much identical to mine in sound and response.
That must be the ‘famed’ Beehive set I’ve heard about during his lecture at CLW '05 that we we’re shown pic’s of..?
Do you have pictures of this C set?
upiper71
The ‘Beehive set’ belongs to Dr. Lewis Blevins (glands)… I am sure that if you ask him nicely he post a photo of it. I had a chance to listen to it at the piper’s gather in Atlanta in May, humdity notwithstanding, it was a lovely chanter in tone and appearance. 
How 'bout it Dr.Lewis are ya out there? If so, could you kindly post a pic of the famed ‘Beehive set’ please…pretty…please..
Pics of the beehive are found at http://www.uilleannobsession.com/extras_k&q.html
Great pics Thanks again.!!
All of the above mentioned makers are one’s I would not mind having sets made by and make incredible C sticks. I was lucky enough to be able to play a Wooff C chanter a little while ago and, WOW!! Great responsiveness, superb tone, and a minimal pressure requirement. Now if only I can come up with 100 grand to bribe Geoff to make me a set.
As posted in an earlier thread, I just got hold of a Tim Britton C chanter, and I’m very happy with it; surprisingly mellow tone, but just as responsive as his D chanters. I can do anything I want with this stick, all my favorite ornamentation, tight playing, or open off the knee.
See previous thread, others had also commented favorably.
Still trying to get a decent recording to post.
JVF
I see…it’s a K&Q ‘Beehive’ set that Glands owns, but not ‘The’ 18th Century (?) Beehive of Kenna. And all this time I’d thought he’d managed to score the real thing. -Sorry David, I’m not suggesting your production isn’t ‘real’, I mean the ‘real’ Kenna set.
Cheers,
DG
Sup ya’ll…
I meant to update that information ages ago. I was corrected in a previous topic by Peter Laban that: “The chanter is (Kenna) but the rest isn’t, Mark Walstrom thinks (and I would agree) it’s Ryan. The mounts were not original though,it seems they were put on later.”
I’ve now updated my site to avoid further confusion.
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Patrick.
Iv’e got a Kirk Lynch C chanter thatI like alot.
Jeff
I have a C chanter made by Ian MacKenzie which is a Coyne copy. It is a beautiful chanter although I may be tempted to put it up for sale for no other reason that I don’t play it nearly enough and it should deserve a better home. This isn’t an add because I’m not decided yet. I know I’ll kick myself if I did sell it because I know I’d miss it but still I hardly get a chance to play it.
Too many gigs that involve the D set…
Hmmm.
Tommy
I have a Seth Gallagher C chanter with tenor and baritone regs, Pat Sky drones, and Mark Hillmann bag and bellows (from my Mark Hillmann D 1/2 set).
I have played maybe 5 or 6 different C chanters, and the ones that impressed me was (I think) a Charles Roberts which was absolutely awesome and it seemed to play by it’s self. Very little effort was needed to play it. That (and a C jam at Elkins with Jerry O, Benedict Koehler and John Walsh the year I took Benedict’s reedmaking class) pushed me over the edge and started me upon my search for a C chanter for myself.
Very similar in response and tone were the Koehler/Quinn chanter in his full C set (a friend of mine let me play his set) and my Gallagher C chanter. They require more bag pressure than the Charles Roberts, almost as much (about 3/4 as much I would guess) as the concert D set.
I love the tonal variations you can get on the flat pitched pipes. I call my D chanter my “shrieking stick”.
I like my Gallagher C chanter…good volume yet very user friendly.
Dave
Count me in with a Gallagher C…
Anyone out there have a Geoff Wooff C chanter by any chance? I know Mikie Smyth plays it as one of his sets and it is quite the chaming piece of wood, with its sweet tones. Later on I may be inclined finacially, to buy one of his chanters if his list isn’t too large.
upiper71
I may be inclined finacially, to buy one of his chanters if his list isn’t too large.
Large. Very large.
But, Wooff stuff does come up for $ale at times.
t