It has nothing to do whatsoever with the pipemaker (surprise!)
It has nothing to do with the piper! (really. honestly.)
Or EVEN the reeds!!!
After sufficent coddling, supreme care and attention, and weeks with NOTHING WHATSOEVER (nothing whatsoever, I say…) wrong with my pipes;
Today, at a show, the reg keys decided to go ALL STICKY on me…
thus ensuring their non-participation in the (rather well-attended, I might add) performance.
They were fine. Springing lively up-and-down, like a bunny in springtime; no pops, clicks, ciphers…the ounce of prevention was duly applied, yaknowwhaddimean?
UNTIL ten minutes before showtime.
grrrr.
Your compassion, comrades, is roundly appreciated.
Yea, they did hang up their pipes, laid down , and wept.
Verily, until I cast my net and draw a miraculous draft of dollars, I’ll be unsticking my reg keys.
thnks
But it would be a pain to slip one of these elastic o-rings over the reg tube. I’m thinking an emergency “pipe-skrunshee” might do the trick. Something with velcro on it, so you can open it, wrap it around and close it off and adjust the tension to hold the key down. I know, a lot of work to make a band-aid. Why not just fix the spring on the key? But I’ll bet if someone made these babies and sold them at tionols, they would sell out.
brilliant wolvy, & come 2 think of it I seem to recall a famous piper who shall remain unnamed using a similar fix (d’oh…whydinnithikothat?) guess that’s why he’s famous!
