Patrick O'hare and chanter - a big misunderstand!!
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:38 am
Hi everybody
Although I doubt that after 8 years something will happen and although I know I should have contacted you many years ago there are moments in life when old bad stories that you believed disappered come up again and every time they hurt a lot.
2000, springtime. I'had been palying for a year or so my Roberts practice set when i decided, having problems with my chanter reed, to send it to a reedmaker to have it fixed. In Italy at that time no reedmaker for uilleann pipes was around and if there was I didn't know any. I was 16 y.o. and passing through "a bit" of problems in my family so I took the easiest way to contact someone who could make me a new reed and looked it up on the net and found a name: Mr. Patrick O'hare.
Fine enough I sent him my chanter and 150 € for a new reed.
"yes, I recieved the chanter and the money I'll send it asap." he wrote me.
Two months later I decided to rang him (which was not easy as at that time I spoke a little english and absolutely wasn't used to northern ireland accent!) but I only spoke to his mother and she said they sent the chanter and I will recieve it "later this week or early next week".
No chanter ever came back.
Tried to rang him three or four time and, after she said "we sent it but returned because of wrong address and, because we moved we lost your address on PC and couldn't re-send it..." I decided either to call police or to swear to them and put and end to this story.
I ordered a new chanter and tried to forget how bad people can make other people's life so difficult.
I was told of being tactful and i hope i was. Remember this is a steal.
If any of you can help me in any way from getting my chanter back to just spread this story around I'll be absolutely grateful.
I could offer a reward but that wouldn't change anything.
Thanks again in advance to everyone.
Gio.
Although I doubt that after 8 years something will happen and although I know I should have contacted you many years ago there are moments in life when old bad stories that you believed disappered come up again and every time they hurt a lot.
2000, springtime. I'had been palying for a year or so my Roberts practice set when i decided, having problems with my chanter reed, to send it to a reedmaker to have it fixed. In Italy at that time no reedmaker for uilleann pipes was around and if there was I didn't know any. I was 16 y.o. and passing through "a bit" of problems in my family so I took the easiest way to contact someone who could make me a new reed and looked it up on the net and found a name: Mr. Patrick O'hare.
Fine enough I sent him my chanter and 150 € for a new reed.
"yes, I recieved the chanter and the money I'll send it asap." he wrote me.
Two months later I decided to rang him (which was not easy as at that time I spoke a little english and absolutely wasn't used to northern ireland accent!) but I only spoke to his mother and she said they sent the chanter and I will recieve it "later this week or early next week".
No chanter ever came back.
Tried to rang him three or four time and, after she said "we sent it but returned because of wrong address and, because we moved we lost your address on PC and couldn't re-send it..." I decided either to call police or to swear to them and put and end to this story.
I ordered a new chanter and tried to forget how bad people can make other people's life so difficult.
I was told of being tactful and i hope i was. Remember this is a steal.
If any of you can help me in any way from getting my chanter back to just spread this story around I'll be absolutely grateful.
I could offer a reward but that wouldn't change anything.
Thanks again in advance to everyone.
Gio.