yep yep 
i got my Charles Roberts Practice set.
tommorow i have my first lesson 
i have been practicing for two days, this is really really Hard
but i like it a lot
im sure ill need this boardâs help soon.
bye.
Congrats! Itâs a narrow bore I assume? If the reed is a good one, this chanter will almost play itself. Volume will always be medium, but thatâs good for now. Is your area under the stable influence of Mediterranean humidity? Be sure and be VERY reluctant to mess with reeds until your teacherâs present! 
Give 'em time. So many things are irreversible with UPs.
Congratulations! As a fellow piping newbie I can appreciate your comments about the hard work involved-I wasnât prepared for the âphysicalityâ of piping(I have arm muscles like Olive Oyl rather than Popeye,LOL!).
Perhaps we could swap notes on our piping progress?
kevin, swapping notes would be great a idea.
feel free to send anythingâŚ
Lorenzo, its now much less humid than in the summerâŚ
tell you the truth i dont really know how much it is than in other places in the world⌠and i really dont know how it will affect my reedâŚ
hope it will be ok
thanx
Youâll be fine! You might have to . . . or, your teacher might have to . . . help you do some reed adjusting.
Israel is DRY DRY DRY. Most places are dry vis-Ă -vis Ireland, but Israelâs quite dry.
How far inland are you?
Stuart
Just out of curiosity, how many U pipers are there in Israel?
Jeff
Eran,
Great to hear! Roberts sticks are some of the easiest to reed if I can believe what Iâm told by the members of several piping clubs in the western United States (DRYYYYYYY Climate!) Best to you with the new set!
Brian~
Thanks again
i know of two UP players, they both are teachers, both playing in irish groups hereâŚ
im sure there are a few more⌠but not much more
i live around half an hour drive to our mediterainian sea so i guess its not so far in landâŚ
you all say its DRY hereâŚ
but in summer its pretty damn humid here, again, i dont really know how much in reed standarts or in comparison to other placesâŚ
Eran.
Thatâs all relativeârelative humidity that is. In Utah they used to whine about how âmuggyâ it was when it would get up into 40% and the high 80âs-mid 90âsF. I mean, in June when it could still get wet youâd be up to 46% humidity and around 90 and people would be just moaning about it.
Fact was, coming first from the Seattle area and then the Minneapolis/St. Paul area with a stint in East Tennessee, Iâve seen wet and Iâve seen humidity, and Utah isnât ever âmuggy.â
I wouldnât be able to tell you about humidity until you tell me about actual measurements.
Royce
in israel between june and november in the coastal areas. you are talking up to 90%. eran/s new reed, especially if she travels with it, is going to see the full range.
meir
Actually Royce, youâre wrong.
Utahâs (and Salt Lake Cityâs in particular) relative humidity can dip into the single digits, but this is extremely rare. Much more so than even I thought several years ago. Our average humidity usually sits around 35-60% believe it or not, and itâs not nearly as rare as one might think to see it hit 100%. Today, weâre sitting at a steady 69%. We do live right on the shore of the largest inland body of water of the American West after all.
The summer months do tend to be dryer on the whole than the winter however we still rarely see numbers down in the single digits. I think the biggest difficulty we have here is the speed of change of climate and conditions. You may have sun, 58 degrees and balmy conditions in the morning, by lunch time see a driving blizzard, and when dinner rolls around be locked in some of the thickest fog Iâve ever seen.
Another issue we must deal with here though is elevation. SLC sits at 4227 feet (at the airport) and many of us live higher than this. The air is of course thinner the higher you go and when you add the altitude with even slightly less than optimal humidity conditions, youâll find reeds not behaving themselves.
I grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania so I also am familiar with âtrueâ humidity. But again, there is something we have in Utah that you rarely if ever see back east - extreme high summer temps. Last summer alone we broke all sorts of records for the longest stretch of consecutive days topping out over 100 degrees. We had many days that approached 110! Now when you couple this type of heat with even a small bit of water vapor in the air it can sometimes feel much as it does back eastâŚthough we donât often get that way (thank goodness!)
I think what most people complain about here is simply the extreme heat. In twenty years of living here, Iâve never once heard anyone complaining about the mugginess of the air though. Certainly it can be felt when itâs a bit âstickierâ outside than normal, but never heard anyone griping about it.
All in all, Utah is a wild climate and pretty nutty place to live, but itâs not nearly as hostile to upâs or their reeds as some would like to let on.
Just setting the record straight from a local view.
As for Eran, I would make the guess that while he too lives in desert conditions (more or less) heâs still close enough to the sea that some humidity should work its way inland as far as his location. While Iâm certain the climate there isnât as optimal as Ireland, I have no doubt heâll be able to make it work!