Hey, I’m looking into picking out a C# chanter, and haven’t been too successful in ascertaining what makers, if any, produce flat pipes in C#. Ideas? Also, does anyone out there have/will have C# pipes? Thanks.
Sam Lawrence (Hunter pipes), Joe Kennedy, and Andreas Rogge make chanters.
I hear those lads are pretty ok!
Hi,
Yes, Sam Lawrence & Joe Kennedy are probably best makers of C# pipes IMHO but their waiting list is closed or veryvery long so… Bill Henneman is also in the same group, but I am not sure if his wait is still 4 years or so. And Andreas Rogge. But there are also others like Ray Sloan, Martin Preshaw, Brad Angus, Richard Patkos ect. ect. so you must be able to find something for sure.
Best of Luck, AA 
(whoops) Too, I have played Martin Preshaw’s flat pipes. They’re VERY impressive! Looking forward to playing Bill’s as well!
Jim Carroll (tradbanjoman I think) also makes chanters and maybe sets? Also Brian Howard I think but am only remembering this from an old thread? I also think Micheal Hubbert but again I’m remembering this from an email from some years ago? There was a clip on youtube of a Malcolm Mclaren C# (any info on Mclaren is he actively making uilleann stuff would he mind an email looking into it) so maybe him as well? David Daye may have a penny version out sometime?
All this is from the top of my head so don’t take it as fact. Let us know who else you find. there was an old thread not that long ago.
Bill Haneman makes some VERY nice and pleasant sounding flat chanters including c#.
There are some sound files on his website, http://billhaneman.ie/soundfiles
(the ones for c# are a bit out of date, you can always mail him and ask for new ones)
You can see the concert pitched half set Bill made for me in his gallery section, it’s the one in ebony with masur birch mainstock and mounts. It use to be my dream set, until the day I tried one of his sets in c# 
I now have one in order 
All the best,
/MarcusR
Gotta second MarcusR on that one, Bill makes great stuff! I have a C# set of his in ebony and box.
Marcus, when do you get your C# set?
Malcom McLaren in Brisbane specialises in C# pipes. He made the McDee chanter (Dicky Deegan’s c#).
David Goldsworthy (“ausdag” on this forum) can put you in touch with him.
Hi John!
I believe that it was your set I got to play when I visited Bill, it was fantastic
My c# set will be ready some time in 2012 and by then I hope that I have progressed enough to do it a bit of justice.
Maybe I should make plans for a visit to Michigan so we can share a few tunes in c# 
All the best,
/MarcusR
Bruce Childress
Maine,USA
An outstanding fellow: and last time I was in his shop, he had some German silver , or some such thing he was fooling with…
http://bcpipes.com/
Is that wildman making pipes outa German Silver now? 
In Germany in 1930 the concert A was 435 and not 440. I read somewhere that in old times the concert D was the pitch of today’s C# (more or less). When the Taylors invented the wide bore chanter what was the pitch of D?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pitch_standards_in_Western_music
Note what’s written towards the end about Baroque music being pitched at A=415. This would suggest that D on a Baroque instrument would be very close to C# in modern concert pitch. Also, C on a Baroque instrument would correspond closely to B in modern concert pitch - this could explain why many old union pipes are pitched in B.