Any experience with Michael Hubbert?
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Any experience with Michael Hubbert?
I'm looking for any experience with a maker. I heard about Michael Hubbert from another Uilleann Pipes board member.
Anyhow, he was in Southern California for many years, and has recently (if I have this correct) moved to N. California.
Any information would be great!
Baen
Anyhow, he was in Southern California for many years, and has recently (if I have this correct) moved to N. California.
Any information would be great!
Baen
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Have you seen his website?
Follow this previous discussion:
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Follow this previous discussion:
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Michael has lived near Mendocino, a few hours north of San Francisco, for at least twenty years.
I've never seen a set of his pipes except in photos, but I've known him since about 1978, and I can assure you that his workmanship and attention to detail is topnotch. He's built many kinds of instruments over the years, including Baroque bassoons and hurdy gurdies. He's been restoring old woodwinds for quite a while, and has played the Uilleann pipes for decades.
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I've never seen a set of his pipes except in photos, but I've known him since about 1978, and I can assure you that his workmanship and attention to detail is topnotch. He's built many kinds of instruments over the years, including Baroque bassoons and hurdy gurdies. He's been restoring old woodwinds for quite a while, and has played the Uilleann pipes for decades.
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Michael Hubbert
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I've seen two of Michael's sets, and played a couple of his chanters. The workmanship is topnotch and play very well indeed. The detail work on his sets needs to be seen in person (and up close) to be fully appreciated.
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I've seen two of Michael's sets, and played a couple of his chanters. The workmanship is topnotch and play very well indeed. The detail work on his sets needs to be seen in person (and up close) to be fully appreciated.
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In 1987 I watched Michael and Rod construct a jig for drilling toneholes (each at a different angle and size) in a reproduction baroque bassoon body. They used a fine old instrument as a template, and placed rods and sleeves in the carefully masked original, built a box with retractable end fixtures to grip the joint by its tenons, and poured epoxy around the sleeves to register them into position and act as drilling guides.Kevin L. Rietmann wrote:I heard that he used to work with Rod Cameron
It was quite inspiring to watch this process, and I marveled at these two fellows' ingenuity. Michael also showed me the reamers he had constructed for the bassoon, which were huge and quite beautiful, just as a piece of craftsmanship in themselves.
I'd love to see and hear a set of his pipes. Some day soon...
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If you come along to the Southern California Tionól in November www.socalpipers.com you will have lot's of oppertunities to see samples of Mr. Hubbert's work.
Patrick.
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Thanks, Patrick. I saw your announcement, and I'm going to try to make it. I spoke to Michael Eskin about the event last night, and I'm hoping I can convince John Tuohy to come up with me.Patrick D'Arcy wrote:If you come along to the Southern California Tionól in November www.socalpipers.com you will have lot's of oppertunities to see samples of Mr. Hubbert's work.
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