Forget it.
How about it, Brian? 
djm
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I’m with Lorenzo.
Sounds like it is living on somewhere else, happily ever after.
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I just bought one… have had it about 4 weeks. I also have a “name-brand” chanter whick is admittedly prettier, but I like the Daye chanter best. I’ve only been playing a few months but am playing (in ensemble, thankfully) for a wedding this weekend and am using the Daye chanter. Why? Because the sound is very close to the name brand, and because it’s in tune all the way up and down two octaves.
This touches on a question I posted a few weeks back with no response yet: I started with whistles, and got used to playing with “open fingering”, where both A’s, for example, can be played with only one finger down. I can use “open fingering” on the Daye chanter and stay in tune for both octaves. But for my more expensive chanter, I have to stay with “closed fingering” in the second octave or it’s really flat. (By closed fingering I mean that the bottom 3 holes must be covered, with middle two open for the A.) Does this sound like a reed adjustment issue or is closed fingering the usual way to play?
Now you’re getting into the really esoteric. Some pipemakers purposefully make their chanters so that you have to use closed fingering. This may be because the pipemaker prefers to play that way, or because it was a trade-off for some other bit of tuning on the chanter that the pipemaker was trying to achieve. Best to ask the pipemaker this question directly.
djm
noshinchan - Do I see correctly that you are already playing for a wedding after only 3 months of playing the pipes? Good for you! I’ve been playing for 3 years now and haven’t done anything like that, maybe at church services soon though.
Ailin
[/quote]I’ve only been playing a few months but am playing (in ensemble, thankfully) for a wedding [quote]
:roll: Best of luck to whoever ends up with this one. I suggest checking it for any cracks, broken welds, poor solder joints, etc. and make certain you can return it if unsatisfied. I’d also just make a reed for it yourself. Everyone that I made worked better than the Daye reeds that were sent (still to see if they actually came from Daye himself - although they were ordered through his website). I bet there’s someone out there with several Quinn, Rogge, Wooff and Lynch sets who is dying to snatch this one up though - so we can have our “fair and balanced” report on it’s playability. Yeah. I’m sure.
Ailin,
A piano, guitar, bodhran, and fiddle can cover a multitude of sins. For the hymns, just the simple melody line works, with the main worry for this beginner being squawking the bottom D or bending back D with too much pressure on a lovely mellow tune like “What Wondrous Love is This.” As for the jigs and reels in the reception, the fiddler is great, and we’re doing more of a dixieland approach: I can’t play Bird in the Bush the right way at tempo, so will just throw enough licks and riffs around to keep up. Hopefully, no purists will be there to throw bottles!!
As to the Daye penny chanter again, I’ve read through the many Daye threads and know some don’t like 'em. But if you’ve put off learning because you couldn’t afford to buy a wooden chanter, I’d say buy the Daye. I actually have two Daye chanters right now (I’ll sell the extra soon). They’re both great! I hope to have a traditional full set in the years ahead, but am sure glad to have had something cheap but good to start on.
Bob
Lay off of David Daye chanter Bryan Cry’in Lee 
, your jealous of his greatness, and you wish you were him, and your not… David doesnt even have you on his purchase list, I think you bought a chanter made by some crackhead who bought one of the do it yourself kits… Dont cry…
Yeah - I bough it from a nobody - named David Daye. If I had a scanner, I’d post a photo of his letter that goes out with all his sets. Or was that the guy who’s posing as David and sending out crap sets in his name. Funny thing is though - I’m not the only one he’s done it to then. But again, old news. How are the sales of chanter windcaps going on ebay for ya by the way? :roll: Just be sure to get your facts straight about my purchase from Daye before you try to slag it okie doke? Great. Fine. Now we’re all happy. 
Enough Brian.
Right. I could say the same. :roll: Back to my cave.
Does anybody have a big wheel of cheese to go along with that …