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I'm simultaneously surprised & relieved, that you dont (apparently) play the pipes Merlin. meaning theres a chance for me yet, in some production requiring these skills ;) I;m also noticing a preponderance of Shure SM 57's in your pics...hmm.

what, no bagpipes? :mrgreen: cant possibly qualify as a *true* mania, at that rate...:cool:

yes both are double reeds for bagpipe chanters. the reed on the left is for the chanter of the Breton BiniouKozh; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL-OkzdyP4Q the reed on the left is for the upper chanter of the Italian Sei Palmi Zampogna: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgnjGOcE0Fw oh, & heres a...

hey, that's a great act!! Looks like you's are having a blast up there! Immediately this picture came to my mind: Its a clarinet/Bechonnet duo, from an early 1900''s postcard. Bechonnet is a type of French Bagpipe & yeah, they were puttin pipers on postacrds even back then... Accordions are...

go ahead Merlin mio amico... :) post those 150-1500 reed pics, (lol i got them too!) but I think this picture kinda sez it all about my reed-life:

welcome to the forum! I call my pipes the worlds stupidest clarinet section: 1st & 2nd can only play one note, forte, and the bass plays an octave below also forte, & all three let the oboe have the melody (well, I guess theres *some* intelligence in that... ;) ) Ive played Highland pipes for...

writing music down by hand lets you get inside of the piece in an up close & personal way. When i have to use notation software, I find I spend more time mucking about with the software settings than I do understanding how the notes in the piece all fit together. It's still faster & more...

OTOH, undergrad can be a damn fine crucible too. make all your experiments & get all your ya-ya's out (aka: "the old college try" ;) ) before things get serious & ya gotta bring back the bacon. This is the time in your musical life to take the risks. At least it was in mine, and thankfully for...

gotcha, & that's a perfectly reasonable, plausible theory; sticker is- that this thing is part of a collection along with a whole other lot of exceptional quality late 1800's early- mid 1900's ethnic instruments. I was asked to ID it by someone else, & im pestering them for a larger photo. I...

anyone???? It's about...8, maybe 9 inches long. I am totally (as in *totally* ) at a loss.

get out. Im using the same goshdarn thing on me pipes. oooooooooooooooo:-o:-o:shock::???: waaaannt....:mrgreen: (thx)

it's an improper connection to run a lo z (xlr) mic into a hi z (trs) unbalanced 'line-in' input...impedance mismatch can damage equip in all sorts of wonderfully expensive ways. about impedance matching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching view xlr connector...

One can run anything through anything, provided that the correct equipment is properly used in the hookup. Sax would need either a mic or contact transducer. This would then need to be matched in impedance to the desired input. Sticking a standard dynamic mic in front of a sax , one would...

yep, you got it :) good luck in your endeavours

Hi Eddie :mrgreen: Lets just talk about clarinet, to start. Say (for ex), you play the note "C" on the "Bb clarinet". Go to a piano, and that note you played will actually sound the same note as "Bb" on the piano. Imagine you have an "A Clarinet" also. Play the note "C" on this instrument...

No WAY ! wow i had no idea he made bagpipes !:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen: cool

Well snakeman, ya hit paydirt. :) I Wanna point out first, that none of these instruments are RARE or EXOTIC ,within their own cultural continuum. But they become so when practised beyond their own pale. Some have attained a level of acceptance, 'globally'. Bagpipes: Scotttish Highland, (in A...

maybe get a cheap plastic fife? if only to get the emborchure, grip & finger position down? ( i never had any luck with the flute either, fwiw....)

"Exotic" is indeed in the eye of the beholder. To me, a sax is a sax is a sax... ;) (ducking & running for cover lol) Shehnai, Duduk, Ciaramella, Khene, Low D whistle, Sei Palmi Zampogna, Launeddas, Egerlander Bock, Veuze, Gudastivri, Ney-Anban... these are the exotic woodwinds... Actually...

maybe: "hit one multi/ sing a line below..hit another multi, sing a connecting line in between the tones...hit a third, sing line above" type of approach; two tones always move simultaneously, while the vocal weaves between them or holds a tone... Whatever he did, it was certainly clever.