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Well -- I got the tuning slide part finally, and I want to thank all who wrote to advise me what to do. Actually, it was Terry McGee who set me on the right course by reassuring me that Grenadilla is a tough wood that will take a lot more pressure than one might think. To give my grip a little more ...

Thanks for your response Terry. I hope heroic measures aren't needed because my track record of using them for ANYTHING is not inspiring! I was using the flute to play the melody line for some new tunes I was checking out for setting for my Mountain (Appalachian) dulcimer. So I really did not play i...

I left my flute assembled for a while, and now I can't take the brass tuning slide apart. I tried twisting it by gripping it using that sticky rubber sheeting they use to line trailer drawers, but to no avail. Hate to put too much pressure on with a mechanical device (like a two pipe wrenches, say) ...

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If you want a "D" fife that is tunable and has a LOUD usable range from the first on up to wheresover you can take it, get one of Skip Healey's. You can even get it with 10 holes (fully chromatic) Drive your wife, dogs and the neighbors crazy! They will beg you to go back to a whistle.

WOW!!

Tullochgorm blew me away. This is the tune that traditionally is played by a piper to accompany the Sword Dance, but Calum Stewart takes it to heights, and at a speed, that I never could have imagined.That he does it on a flute is IMHO, nothing short of incredible.

Alba gu bragh!

If you can whistle DIXIE you know how to make glottal stops! What's the big deal?

Aanvil asks if I was a playing my indestructable"art ivory" mounted practice pipe chanter in the "jungles of the Southwest Pacific" during WWII. Yowza! I was with Fleet Airwing 17 and spent nearly 2 years there (from March 1944 to January 1946.) We flew shore- based patrol bomber...

I don't know what the composition of Faux Ivory is, but if it is anything like what they used to call "art ivory", which was widely used for ferrule rings and mounts, drone caps and chanter soles on bagipes, it will turn a horrid brown color over the years as the plasticizers migrates to t...

I can recommend Hardie pipes made in the late 1960's, made by Jim himself. I have a silver and ivory set (thistle pattern) myself. Hardies were the "new pipes" choice of knowledgeable pipers then. In this they had supplanted Robertsons, which were the until the mid 60's when Mr. Robertson ...

I can recommend Hardie pipes made in the late 1960's, made by Jim himself. I have a silver and ivory set (thistle pattern) myself. Hardies were the "new pipes" choice of knowledgeable pipers then. In this they had supplanted Robertsons, which were the until the mid 60's when Mr. Robertson ...

I can recommend Hardie pipes made in the late 1960's, made by Jim himself. I have a silver and ivory set (thistle pattern) myself. Hardies were the "new pipes" choice of knowledgeable pipers then. In this they had supplanted Robertsons, which were the until the mid 60's when Mr. Robertson ...

I tied in an L&M bag about 30 years ago and have never seasoned it. I played my pipes a lot for the first 15 years I used this bag, and since then only sporadically. To get it going and air-tight again after it has dried out I cork the stocks and dump about a half glass of warmish water in the b...

I tied in an L&M bag about 30 years ago and have never seasoned it. I played my pipes a lot for the first 15 years I used this bag, and since then only sporadically. To get it going and air-tight again after it has dried out I cork the stocks and dump about a half glass of warmish water in the b...

I tied in an L&M bag about 30 years ago and have never seasoned it. I played my pipes a lot for the first 15 years I used this bag, and since then only sporadically. To get it going and air-tight again after it has dried out I cork the stocks and dump about a half glass of warmish water in the b...