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I’ve determined that the discussion of a successful repair originally described in this thread never occurred. As such, posts about that transaction have been removed. But since the thread had some useful recommendations of Belfast pipemakers and reedmakers, I’ve left the parts of the thread not related to that discussion intact. --Rich
Hello to all in this Forum.
Does anyone know of any reedmakers/pipmakers in the Belfast area who would be able to do some minor repairs ( threading, valves etc).
I think the valve from the bag to the bellows is shot as the bellows keep filling up with air from the bag!!!
also yesterday when i took my pipes out i heard the chanter reed rattling inside the chanter and to my horror when i went to put it back in the reed was cracked 
Ive just recently moved to belfast so dont really know anybody. Any help would be great
Bye for now
pipemaker & reedmaker, tel. 047-71899 from N.Ireland or Sean Dillon will help you out from Belfast, tel. 02890297338 thats from the UK, you could try 90297338 from belfast, Martin Preshaw is also over there is N.Ireland also, try his web page. I’m sure one of these guys will fix any of your problems. all the best.