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by RoberTunes
Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:26 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Anyone like the big round embouchure?
Replies: 20
Views: 3386

Re: Anyone like the big round embouchure?

... Perhaps, and likely, some of that air becomes chiff or breathiness or a raspiness, but it's not ... flutes and whistles, apart from calliopes and pipe organs. But flute tone holes aught to be as ... this is also a big concern, write some flute makers with the idea and see if you get any responses ...
by FlaminGalah
Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:10 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Are pipemakers dwindling again?
Replies: 14
Views: 4497

Are pipemakers dwindling again?

... I first started paying attention to uilleann pipes about 15 years ago, in my late teens. I couldn't ... a bit of a renaissance. There were dozens of makers with price-lists and wait times posted, lots ... on the unsuspecting new piper (happily I found Chiff and Fipple before I succumbed!) Now, ...
by Julia Delaney
Mon Nov 23, 2020 1:21 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Sam Murray flutes through McNeela
Replies: 28
Views: 25975

Re: Sam Murray flutes through McNeela

... hadn’t got my flute back from Sam. From the Chiff & Fipple thread - Sam Murray and flute ... Sweden all my dealings with flute and uilleann pipe makers have been long distance by default. Over the years ...
by Nanohedron
Sun Nov 22, 2020 5:34 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Chip and Fiffle
Replies: 75
Views: 32985

Re: Chip and Fiffle

... writer might even have gotten the word "chiff" first from this very board. I mean, ... yourself: Where else does anybody other than pipe organ makers ever talk about chiff? Sessions? C'mon. Then the ...
by Wanderer
Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:50 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Thornton D in lignum vitae Review
Replies: 6
Views: 2894

Thornton D in lignum vitae Review

... me of the end of the chanter on an uilleann pipe. It's just a little more ornate than the ring that most makers will use (if they put a ferrule on at all). The ... Tone : Mostly pure, with a slight woodsy chiff. Unlike other large-windway whistles (like say, ...
by stanton135
Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:34 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: CP: Ronaldo Reyburn Low D Whistle Tour
Replies: 78
Views: 22854

Re: CP: Ronaldo Reyburn Low D Whistle Tour

... Paddy Keenan's first album; Bantry Bay, a hornpipe; and The Trip to Durrow, a reel. Barbara Allen ... but distinct. The Reyburn has a very similar chiff, the attack at the onset of a tongued or finger-ornamented ... find info about these characteristics because makers and players sometimes don't ...
by uilleannpipe
Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:24 am
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Wanted: Half set of used uilleann pipes
Replies: 0
Views: 500

Wanted: Half set of used uilleann pipes

Hi Everyone, I recently joined Chiff & Fipple. I am from St. Louis, Missouri. ... to upgrade from a practice set of uilleann pipes to a half set. I am not interested in a really ... around Na Piobairi Uilleann's website for pipe makers to contact as well. If anyone knows of any ...
by hans
Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:44 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: a question: what is the "chiff"??
Replies: 18
Views: 4645

Re: a question: what is the "chiff"??

... 'hiss' as an onomatopoeic for breathiness? In any case I think whistle makers need a wider range of vocabulary to describe a whistle's sounds than one need for an organ pipe, since the tonal complexity varies for each note and with the player's air pressure ...
by RCRanger03
Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:08 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Honest opinions for a newbie thinking about Uilleann Pipes
Replies: 37
Views: 4502

Honest opinions for a newbie thinking about Uilleann Pipes

Hello Chiff and Fipple Forum My name is Matthew McElhaney. I'm ... on the best course of action. I have found some pipe makers, most specifically David Daye in America (http://daye1.com/pennychanter.html) ...
by tyler.sinclair
Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:50 am
Forum: Sold and Old
Topic: FS: Restored 6-key flute, cocus, JA Turner London, c.1870
Replies: 1
Views: 944

FS: Restored 6-key flute, cocus, JA Turner London, c.1870

... - although I’ve lurked for many months in the Chiff and Fipple forums, this is my first post! ... of the headjoint, however, showed a very faint makers mark of “I. Zietler, Wien”. Although the ... and music seller’. A flute (1-key), picco pipe reported. MARK: J.A. TURNER / LONDON ADDRESS: ...
by vanfleet
Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:21 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: where did all the vids go?
Replies: 0
Views: 512

where did all the vids go?

Help please;
I remember seeing some great videos of pipe makers practicing their craft; boring with a gun drill, turning chanters, etc.
I can't find them by searching the Chiff Board index though . . .
Any suggestions or links would be greatly appreciated.
JVF
by irishpiper
Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:39 am
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: V-Pipes
Replies: 58
Views: 14863

Re: V-Pipes

... that we all expect from "real" pipe makers should apply in this case. The initial order period ... to let me know the VPipes were now for sale? Does the Chiff Board have any members in Spain, who can vouch for ...
by vanfleet
Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:22 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: V-Pipes
Replies: 58
Views: 14863

Re: V-Pipes

... that we all expect from "real" pipe makers should apply in this case. The initial order period ... to let me know the VPipes were now for sale? Does the Chiff Board have any members in Spain, who can vouch for ...
by Chris The Wakes
Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:08 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Professionals choice, for Performance, movie tracks, stage..
Replies: 30
Views: 8656

Re: Professionals choice, for Performance, movie tracks, stage..

... pipes/corrigan-whistles.html http://www.myspace.com/deernesspipes And, of course, the obligatory Chiff and Fipple discussion topic: http://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=53159 ... have a thorough knowledge of whistle and/or pipe makers, but I am actually an advanced, top-secret ...
by Duff
Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:55 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Professionals choice, for Performance, movie tracks, stage..
Replies: 30
Views: 8656

Re: Professionals choice, for Performance, movie tracks, stage..

... pipes/corrigan-whistles.html http://www.myspace.com/deernesspipes And, of course, the obligatory Chiff and Fipple discussion topic: http://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=53159 ... have a thorough knowledge of whistle and/or pipe makers, but I am actually an advanced, top-secret ...