Maintenance & Support -- Penny Chanter & Reeds
5 December 2011
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Youtube Videos for Absolute Beginners and Intermediates How to Test Video for Chanter/Reed setup. Very basic, 7 minutes. Learning How to Blow Video for Chanter/Reed setup. Very basic, 4 1/2 minutes. How to Test Video for Chanter/Reed setup. Very basic, 7 minutes. New  Making a Stablized Chanter Reed Intermediate level, 18 minutes. New  Making a Pressure-Stable Uilleann Drone Reed Intermediate level, 8 minutes. New  Adjusting Artificial Uilleann Drone Reeds. Intermediate level, 12 minutes. New  Making an Uilleann Chanter Tapered Staple Tube Intermediate level, 8 minutes. New  Making bees' wax soft and sticky. Beginner level, 3 1/2 min. All my videos and audio clips can be found by searching Youtube for "dayepipes". You must include the double quotes to see all the listings and exclude unrelated listings. Articles How to Test Your Chanter and Reed. Especially for new players. Chanter Reed Problems -- Common Adjustments & Remedies New  Adapting Chanter Reeds to different sources of cane. New  Pre-Treating Wild Cane for chanter reeds with humidity cycling. New  Easing edge tension in chanter reed by resting with a wege between the blades. Chanter reed octave adjustments.A detailed discussion of reed principles and adjustments to make the 2nd octave easier to start and hold. Fix Sinking Back D with light sanding inside of chanter reed. New  Steadying Reed for Daye Bass Drone for use in solid full-set mainstock. Keep Your Drones From stopping with 2-bend style reed tongues. A Gentle Humidity Treatment Box for Reeds Making Your Own Quick Heat-Formed Reeds for Penny-Chanter Keeping a Supply of Great Chanter Reeds for any chanter. Build Your Own Flat Pitch concert-style (wide bore) Penny-Chanter. Making Your Own Carved-Style Reeds for Penny-Chanter Making Your Own Traditional Style Reeds for Penny-Chanter Refurbishing a Used Penny-Chanter Drone Mainstock Wood Veneer covering to replace vinyl simulated leather. New  David Daye's Bagpipe Page -- loads of free educational material, technical tips and tricks for learning, maintaining and playing uilleann and Scottish pipes (warpipes). From 1995 till 2006, one of the 25 most linked of all bagpipe pages worldwide.