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... go in just about anything narrow bore. Top one has a handrolled tapered staple, but the bottom one is a tubing cheat ;-) http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid138/p7fac3c1cab791cc96ae355112fea9b00/f713e5b3.jpg ... a chanter that doesn't tend to play sharp, i.e. it's too sharp in most Rowsome-derived ...

... still its tiny compared to standard concert pitch reeds. I've seen Leo Rowsome reeds that are really small too. But they work bang on. Alan, when ... If the chanter is well made, various combinations of reed width, staple bore and very importantly bridle postiton will work. Small reeds are ...

I am always amazed why some differently sized staple/heads can sound so similar and still be in tune in the same chanter. It ... that out. My Hillmann D works best on a slightly larger than normal generic Rowsome design, while my Nick Whitmer D works well the Seth Gallager D reed design. ...

... seat, I tuned it against my drones and it had the typical large bore Rowsome sound and response. My reed design or the David Daye penny chanter ... a Daye reed during his next few reedmaking class (he never could roll a staple seam shut for some strange reason) and he then just vanished into ...

... of cane, a sharp knife, a sanding cylinder, a piece of sandpaper, a staple, and a bridle are all he needs. So if he gets a chanter from one maker ... the new chanter, he finds it a bit mellower and less shrill than his Rowsome, and I have to agree having heard both chanters in person at one ...

... of the head can move around and you can even insert and withdraw the staple from the head with too much manipulation of the head. I think David ... design works best for tuning the Es of the O'Flynn family of concert Rowsome chanters, but have the problem of the sides opening with weather ...

... the sound-producing bore reaches from the tip of the reed through the staple into the chanter bore down to the bell. Ideally this entire path should ... of the problems is that most Concert D chanters are copies of some old Rowsome and the ‘A’ in his days was almost a quarter of a tone higher then ...

... to try to address taking into consideration Bernoulli forces in the staple and happy little minutia like that. When you come to drone reeds (similar ... I'd still say, however, that the reed acts as a modulator. As for why Rowsome made the modifications and changes to the bore he did, we can only ...

... the problem? That may be only partly true, Tony. The throat in some Rowsomes is larger than the copy that I play on. Mine is larger than normal ... card to narrow the bore in that area, or a thin-wall, larger than staple, brass tube 3/4-1" long, sometimes rat-tail filed inside at both ...

... that he and I have been discussing, other than climate, esp. regarding staple size and rolled(tapered) vs. tube(cylindrical) in Quinn/Rowsome type chanters and why the rolled ones works best for some reason. Until recently I ...

... bore (esp, the throat) Quinn was making at that time, trying to copy Rowsome's large bores. I talked to him about that this last spring and he ... bore has to be a certain small bore 3. Reed should be made by a pro 4. Staple has to be rolled 5. Temperature has to be about 72 deg. F. 6. Reed ...

I saw an interesting fix for a poor hard D in a Rowsome (due to the upper bore being a little large) where the reed-maker dangled a short loop of thread from the base of the reed staple down a tiny bit into the bore.

Dionys

... has been published on that aspect of them, is the fact they used a staple with an inverse taper i.e. it widened considerably towards the reed head quite opposed to the Rowsome school of reedmaking. Only yesterday I was looking at a staple that belonged ...