I want to buy an electric chanter, but they’re all very expensive, so this one looked like a good deal to me, but I can’t find any info about them anywhere. The only thing you can read on the chanter on the pic is ‘Mono Pipes’ but I can’t find any info on that with google.
Including shipping and handling and taxes it would be £90 (€115 & $180)
The others are all around $250 or more, so I’m very interested in this one.
Is there anyone who ownes this chanter or has played them?
Scoutcow, I have a Flagerstrom that I am very pleased with. My experience is limited but I love the fact that there are Highland, and two smallpipe sound options with multiple key choices and tuning options. They have been in Chiff & fipple threads and are easy to google.
A friend of mine has this thing. it’s called the ross micro pipe. It’s sold everywhere. Works fine. Makes the right sounds. But it’s very simple and very electronic sounding. And I believe it doesn’t have a volume. At least he didn’t know how to change the volume. This was a problem b/c it was a bit too loud. He ended up buying a set of headphones with volume on them. It definitely worked though.
i lived with him and had access to it for several months, but never felt like playing b/c of the sound.
I know it’s more expensive, but I would whole heartedly endorse the techno pipe. I got it for a gift and had reservations with it b/c of how I got along with the micro pipes. But I play the technopipe all the time. (my better half is in Law school, so sometimes there must QUIET) It sounds like a real GHB, easily retunes to A and does cross-fingering for accidentals. It also has a built in metronome! You don’t know how cool that is until you try it.
Also the drones can be turned on and off seperatly with different drone configurations such as A>A+E>A+D>E>D which have separate volume controls and change automatically when you change keys or pipe sounds. Very fun. It is amazing to me how the different drone configurations, pipe sounds and tunings lend themselves to different moods and tunes. I don’t feel that my limited discriptions do them justice.
Found on songsea.com:
Turns on when any note is fingered. Play low G and press the top screw on the back of the instrument to decrease volume. Play low A and press the top screw on the back of the instrument to increase volume.
I would endorse the technopipes from fagerstrom too. I haven’t had a practice chanter in my hands since getting them. The sound quality s good enough to run through a friend’s keyboard in a session. The most annoying thing is that the settings always revert to the default (GHB, Bflat) when they are turned on.
Physically they are small and soooo convenient to carry around despite the finger spacing being correct. Do not confuse them with their predecessor, the technochanter which is an altogether more primitive piece of kit.
After posting my comment I went onto Anders Fagestrom’s website and noticed that the newest version of the technopipes has the option of playing a chromatic scale (basically turning it into a chromatic border chanter). I emailed him and he’s already got back to me. I can send my chanter to him (in sweden) and for fifty bucks (including shipping) he can update mine to the new specs.
He also told me that he could set my chanter to start on A as the default.
Since I want one soon and I don’t want to spend very much money on it, so I think I’ll start with the Ross Micro Pipes.
I don’t want a very complicated techno pipe with functions on it I’m not gonna use. It’s more to play in the evening/at night or when the baby nextdoor is sleeping.