Just bought a flat half set of pipes off ebay

[Joseph_E_Smith]

@AlanB

Neill has sent this chanter to me for a reed. All these measurements have made me nervous!! From Teds post and a quick reed test, I’d be happy to follow his advice, and get the reed in it’s most comfortable position. Thing is, Neill mentions a set of Bb regs he might have interest in. So, what is the next step? Get those regs and tweak them up to the chanters comfy pitch, or try to get the whole thing going in Bb if possible?

Alan

It is as simple as this…

You HAVE the chanter…so…break out the bottle of Lagvulin (16), pin the left forefeather of the fattened goose to the next whimpy Gimpy you see, adjusting for ‘HARD’ breath, then, jump the light Fandango…sorry…it’s anew motherboard…

The chanter is in what key?" Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm…your work is ahead of you. Like you have already (and expertly so, may I add ) stated, tune the chanter first…

[AlanB]

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[Joseph_E_Smith]

Sorry, I get carried away from time to time…but somehow I manage to escape again.

[AlanB]

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[system]

Tastes lik chocolate never tasted before

[Lorenzo]

@neill41

Sounds very nice, just hard to get the upper octave but i think thats down to me struggling with the finger spacing still!!

Be patient, it took me a couple of months to get comfortable on the B chanter finger spacing, and there’s still work to do in that area. I esp had to work on the upper G (lower hand index finger). I couldn’t always get it on demand, jumping directly from the lower octave. I found one of the lower fingers leaking. It did help me a lot to play only the B…instead of switching back and forth between B and D all the time. Now, the upper octave is nearly as easy as the lower…when humidity is just right. The reed is breaking in quite nicely.