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Ebay Redux; this was one of the chanters being sold by JustGreatStuff1 before. Brad Angus reeds and chanter top. What’s this doohickey?
Looks like a plumbing fitting of some sort…sure is tempting!
Looks like the crack in the top - the part closest to the tone holes. This is definitely the chanter that was part of the Busby lot.
AUCTION CLOSED - $900 Buy-It-Now!
This chanter has been re-listed:
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AM I SEEING DOUBLE OR HAS THIS BEEN LISTED BEFORE?
NOW FOR THE MAIN QUESTION - ARE TWO SPARE CHANTER REEDS INCLUDED WITH THIS AUCTION?
Looks like two sets of two reeds. You didn’t hang on to this thing very long, eh Jim?
I’ve played a few double chanters, trying to get the bores to cooperate and all, putting various reeds in. Quite a task, which I couldn’t entirely accomplish; but the sound is really something.
I’ve never owned this double chanter.
I’ve seen a few doubles and this one was definitely ‘playable’. Some doubles are very awkward in their execution; this one feels and plays like a single chanter and that is is a plus!
Where did this weapon wind up?
Patrick.
It’s out there on eBAY.
I don’t know diddley about double chanters. Is it sort of the equivalent of double courses on stringed instruments?
Its like a 12-string vs 6-string guitar, only worse for tuning. There are two (count’em) two chanter reeds, so not only do you have twice the trouble getting them adjusted as you normally would, you now have to get them in sync, but when you do, they sound unique.
djm
Does anyone know of recordings of UPs with double chanters?
The only recording that I know of is of Leo Rowsome on the ‘Drones and Chanters: Vol 1’
Luke
Thanks, Luke!
R.L.O’Mealy made a number of recordings with the BBC in the 1940’s - two of the tracks are using a set with a double chanter and double bass regulator - possibly the set he shown with in IMM. In total they last about 15 minutes. They were never issued commercially but can be heard in various archives including the BBC Archives, Cecil Sharp House (EFDSS), London as well as sound archives in Dublin, Ireland. I do not know if any of sound archives in the US have copies.
I have a double chanter in the Taylor style probably dating from around the turn of the 19th century. Will post some pictures for you all to have a guess at maker is as there are no identifying marks.
Were all the double chanters done in D? Does anyone know of any that were done in B or C? Are there any recordings?
Were the Taylors the inventors of these? I ask this because any I’ve heard of all refer to being in the “Taylor style”.
Thx,
djm
Robert Reid made double chanters; other examples predate Taylor.
I used to have an old double chanter in about C#. My Taylor double chanter is almost identical to it in length and finger hole spacing and size. But the Taylor bores are bigger, which puts it about D in pitch. The Taylor is in a single piece of ebony, while the Kenna[?] is in 2 pieces of Plum.
Both have bone mounts.
Ted
I’ve a tape with ten tracks of O’Meally = 5 records. All of these have double bass regulator, but none have him playing the double chanter. All are in C#, too. They are listed in the Thomas Johnson uilleann pipe discography. Are these double chanter tracks listed there?