Sorry to hear you are giving up the C set. Personally, I don’t think you should. Someday you will likely kick yourself for doing so. Hang on to it for a while longer and see how you feel in another year.
I would like to change from a C set to a wide bore D set beacuse I can use the full set in sessions and with my father whould plays the button accodreon in Keys of D and G.
As I can not use the C regs and drones in sessions I wouldn’t be heard anyway.
I will still have my C and B chanters as I am not selling them.
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Kidney for sale!!!
I first began on the C sankewood chanter (not for sale ) got from Andreas Rogge at Cultra Tionol Sepember 1997
I got the C drones, mainstock bag and bellow (bellows not for sell) at the Belfast Tionol March 1999 from Andreas Rogge.
I had to send Andreas the bag and mainstock to add the bag cover and bass reg sliding part before I received the C regs by DHL just before Christmas December 2001.
I am hoping to order soon a wide bore D set form Andreas Rogge made from plumwood, brass and boxwood without chanter and bellows.
3 to 4 years waiting time now Andreas Rogge takes.
I am only changing from my C set because I play the D chanter more.
I want to be able to reach the regulator keys on the D set as it would be easier to reach than on the C set while I have both hands on chanter.
When I get a buyer for the Lefthanded snakewood C full set without the bellows and chanter I will have to get new bag while I am waiting for the D set.
Fergus
Have you tried anyone’s D set to see whether you can reach the reg keys on a D any easier than you find it on the C set?
Geoff Wooff is probably smaller than you are, but he manages a B set’s regs OK.
Just a thought…as some people can’t reach their reg keys because of the way they sit, or the position of the shoulder strap, or the turn of the stock in the cup & bag.
Man I sure wish I had the moolah to take you up on the offer!
Alas, a bass reg. for my 3/4 is the next item on my endless instrument wish list.
As far as the hard to reach regs., have you tried tying your main-stock in at different places? Definently easier on the wallet with a big roll of vinyl lying around!
Oh jeepers, I want that set so goddamn bad…
Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s enough blood in my body to amount to 3,000 pounds worth down at the local red cross clinic…
I don’t suppose Fergus would be willing to donate the set out of the goodness of his heart for the benefit of the future of North American uilleann piping (i.e. just give it to me). No…suppose not. Oh well…
No, although I know from where I could procure one. That’s another expense heaped on top…I’d probably have to borrow some blood from a few friends
to afford that bit.
