Edinburgh Kilted Pics Last Weekend

[Galician]

those pipes in the first pig must be a pig to play- look at the differance in tuning pins on the 2 tenor drones, !! nice pics though

Huh? Care to explain to the non-piped?

Really great pics, btw!

[highlander_Daz]

if you look at the top sections on the two (shorter) tenor drones they slide up and down, you can adjust the drone reeds strength and pitch by moving a bridle up and down the reed body, normally, when setting up a set of pipes you have the sliders set the same and adjust the reeds so the pipes tune in to the low A of the chanter, the outer tenor drone is in roughly the right place but the middle is very low, suggesting the bridle needs to side down shortning the reed and making it sharper so the piper can lengthen the drone to bring it in tune, however adjusting the bridle also affects the strength of the reed so most likely the middle drone will be drawing much more air than the outer it will strike in earlier and carry on honking for longer when the piper finishes his tune, and because the reed will be drawing more air it will make the pipes harder to play, as the bag will be emptying faster, its possible hes performed some kind of emergancy fix on his drone reeds and hes back off the bridle becasue the reed is shutting off, in a solo pipeing competition a judge would immediatly pick up on the fact that the pipes are incorrectly set up. Im not criticising the lad its just that incorrectly set up pipes are a pain to play .

[McClef]

I can only observe that he had been pulling the drones apart and fiddled with them before reassembly just before I took the picture.

But they sounded fine to my no doubt untrained ear.

[Galician]

Your skills as a teacher really have come through in explaining the mysteries of the pipes!

[highlander_Daz]

as I said Im not criticising the lad -very often, in fact most times you play you are constantly making adjustments, what most likely happened is the reed tongue has got wet and it sticks to the reed body making it cut out, backing the bridle off makes the reed less likely to cut out but it will draw more air and go flat, so hence the difference in tuning pin positions, but the slightest movement of the bridle makes a huge difference in the way the reed sounds, tunes and how much air the reed draws, I carry little rubber corks in my box and on more than one occasion Ive corked a drone off it the reed plays up too much. I sympathise with the lad wholeheartedly !!

[GMan]

I cannot add to what has already been said, those are wonderful!