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... Shoulder straps as well as Reeds and fittings. The reason for the name on this accordion is the fact that it has PROFESSIONAL Reeds which means hand finished. Similar quality reeds to the Castagnari and Paolo Soprani and Serenellini accordions Free Shipping to CONUSA, all other locations buyer ...

Hello rglight I don't have a Casey Burns small hand flute but I do make flutes that are easy to play for people with a smaller reach, and everyone else. In fact, I'm finishing one right now. No payment in advance. Try it first. If you like it and ...

Illness is forcing my hand, I don't have the wind to fill my whistles any more. I have nice ones to sell, not in current production…though I understand Mack has a successor, and Ian Turnbull may yet return to the business. First,a couple ...

... from my Pastoral set. I got hold of Rob Gandara, and in a very short time he supplied me with one of his carbon fiber chanters. To my ears, the ... work with. Although, I decided to stick with my pastoral chanter due to hand issues. I recently I had one of the pipers from our local session over ...

... produce whistles, I had a fair amount of loss in the mouthpiece department because I couldn't consistently produce them, and so I had to bin the ... a process that allows me to make a consistent mouthpiece with the same hand-finishing steps for each piece that comes off of the printer. I'm adding ...

Hi there I am fairly new to the world of whistling but have already become addicted to aquiring cheap second hand whistles. I am concerned several of these acquisitions have lead on the fipple, especially one of them (the one on the left). The one on the left is Vintage Tin Whistle ...

Indeed. From the Irish word Súgán meaning straw I believe. The straw was twisted by hand into a rope, and the rope interwoven into the chair's wooden frame to form a seat. The pub featured such homely furniture. We had some good nights there, where you'd find a different ...

Glad your G whistle came through! Was going to comment that I'd had a new bass B Flat through recently ... There is an issue with the Alba website submitting orders but I think that's in hand and I know she was massively busy over Christmas with the number of orders that had been ...

... am parting with this lovely Seery Delrin flute. It is a beautiful instrument with a strong tone, and I guess this flute has been discussed sufficiently in various threads. I bought it two years ago second hand, but after a few months of intense playing I find that it's just not for ...

... maybe have a go at some Hotteterre, leclair etc. I find it hard nowadays to cover the bigger holes on an "Irish" flute due to having had hand surgery, so I thought I'd do better with the smaller traverso holes. I'll give it a couple of months, then, if no joy, back to my Boehm system! ...

... up playing (silver) flute, and wants to get back into it and play with me (uilleann piper). I have a Burns folk flute I'm happy dabbling with, and ... a bit too much of a stretch for her to use. I want to get her a small-hand ergonomic Burns folk flute. I'm open to ordering a new one, but I thought ...

... software has no such problems. I tied the same sticks and reeds into several different bags ... of some type and the bag is jammed between your arm and chest which removes any possibility ... produces some magical vibrance. Put you hand on a drum skin and tell me it makes the same ...

... using normal drill bits because they made a mess of things too many times, and I personally don't mind not having perfect circles as I like the hand-crafted look. The burrs are still overly aggressive, so it would be good to have something a bit less so. If I had more money to fling at tools, ...

... a correction of the tone-hole distances which I posted before. I didn't measure them centre-to-centre. And also I misnamed them ( merci, Christophe!) ... mm D hole to E hole -37 mm E hole to F# hole - 40 mm I have quite small hands, short, stubby fingers but it's not too much of a stretch for me. ...

I am looking at selling my Case Burns Folk Flute. It is made of African blackwood. It is his standard model with straight holes. There is nothing wrong with the flute itself. I would like to sell it because the spacing is a bit much for my hands. I am switching to a small hand, ergonomic version.