i know there are plans out there for making a chanter from four pieces of wood, giving a square bore.
My question is that if that is possible, could regulators be made in two halves, with the bore made by a router of sorts? no need for reaming then…
I don’t think you’d get very satisfactory results with the router technique. The possibilty of square regs seems more promising, especially the having flat surfaces to mount the key work (you could go “Tayloresque”).
No E
There were plans for a four-sided chanter, not a square chanter. There was still a taper to the bore. I don’t know how you would plan to use a router to create a tapered bore.
djm
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Since you’re only playing one octave, regulators cut from routed halves (and no taper) may actually work. Considering all the wild ideas flying around here… that idea seems viable.
I have been experimenting in making chanters and regulators using the squaretechnic.
FinallyI have made b-set where the tenor and baryton regulator are made
using the squaretechnic.
I have made the chanter in this way. Because I havent succeded yet in making a drillbore in the wood.
Take 2 pieces of wood. Make a line from the top to the bottom of each piece of wood. Then scrape some of the wood away. I take a 3mm steelwire. Then glue the 2 pieces together under pressure, move the wire. Then you have a 3mm bore from top to bottom. Then I use the cheap drills I have and at the end use a reamer. The reamer is made by a 4mm ironsheet. I made the measurements on the ironsheet and then using a “ironsaw” I cut out the reamer and made the last work with a file and sandpaper.
I have made about 4 chanters in B -nat in that way 2 of them seems to be good.
Also a Cis chanter in the same way.
Regards
Ole
I was going to cut a channel using 6 or 8 bits, and then file down the “steps” for a smooth taper on each side.
The square one was my other thought (I didn’t mean square as in straight rectangular bore, but that the bore would have four flat walls, and the normal taper)…
Indeed, to be specific, Craig Fischer’s (sp? Fisher?) “squinter” design, with four flat, tapered sides.
No E
Say Ole,
Is one of these the chanter you are playing on Clips and Snips? Or were just the drones home made?
The whole set is homemade. The first clip ( Taimse…chodla..) was played on the first b- chanter I made.Later I destroyed the reed( keep your hands in your pockets…)Ok it was only a amateurprojekt,- later it could be interesting if a prof.pipemaker could make a reed and give me some feedback on the chanter. I contacted Andreas Rogge. He made a new reed for the chanter.
The second clip ( Lord Gordon) is played on the second chanter I made in the same way, as the first. I used the same reamer on both chanters.
Regards
Ole
I’ve seen this method used by digeridoo makers in Leeds.
Hope that’s no reflection on the sound of any regulator produced this way. 
David
From what I could tell (bearing in mind it is an mp3 recording off a web site and played through cheap PC speakers) those chanters sounded pretty nice. Cool stuff! I’d love to see a photo of it/them, any chance?
Hello Joseph. Check your pm.
Ole
Very cool!
the verdict is in: you do not need a tapered bore for regulators.
I just took a 5/16 aluminum tube, drilled the tenor holes according to spec and it is in perfect tune. Amazing
…umm…patent pending
I have been thinking of this as well, since you dont overblow the regs, why is it even nessesary to have doulble-blade reeds. The swedish bagpipe plays a bit more more than one octave, with a single blade reed and a straight 6mm bore. Not having exprience with NSP, but i think they have straight bore, but with double reeds, playing up to two octaves.
Anders
Do regulators have to be conical or cylindrical. The sound they produce is different. See http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/pipes.html .The harmonics are even or uneven. It is the difference between an oboe or a clarinet.
Usually the regs are conical. I’m not up enough on physics to know if you can follow the examples you are looking at, as a reg is closed at both ends, whereas an oboe is only closed at one end. I have never seen a satisfactory explanation that related directly to UPs. Everyone reads studies done on symphony instruments and tries to extrapolate the findings to UPs. I don’t know enough about it to know if this is valid.
djm
like one can get a straight bored whistle to sound properly in the lower octave but not in the upper, i think the chance that it won’t matter for regs is good enuff to make trying worthwhile…
for he who said he had done straight bore regs…
do I look for pvc that is uniformly the largest diameter of a conical bore, or the mean diameter?