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  1. NSP Bellows with belt bracket

    NSP Bellows with belt bracket

    Northumbrian bagpipe bellows, with wooden belt-mounts
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    • Album: Northumbrian Small Pipes (NSP)
  2. NSP Bellows with belt bracket

    NSP Bellows with belt bracket

    Northumbrian bagpipe bellows, with wooden belt-mounts
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    • Album: Northumbrian Small Pipes (NSP)
  3. 1:6-scale GHB projecting-mounts

    1:6-scale GHB projecting-mounts

    1:6-scale, real mammoth-ivory projecting-mounts for GHB model.
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    • bagpipe ghb ivory mammoth model
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  4. 1:6 scale Scottish bagpipe chanter

    1:6 scale Scottish bagpipe chanter

    1:6-scale (aka 'play-scale'/'Barbie-scale') Scottish GHB chanter, African-blackwood and mammoth-ivory.
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    • bagpipe barbie blackwood chanter ivory scottish
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    A little Scottish bagpipe turning ...

    I"ve started another bagpipe project, this time the Great Highland Bagpipe (aka 'GHB'). I started with the bass drone top: Of course, I did say "little Scottish bagpipe..." : It is, in fact, a 1:6 scale (aka "play scale" same as "Barbie Scale") model! I was first thinking of 1:12...
  6. 1:6 scale Scottish Bagpipe

    1:6 scale Scottish Bagpipe

    Bass drone top at 1:6 (play/Barbie) scale. Standard #2 pencil for scale comparison.
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    • bagpipe bass-drone scottish
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  7. 1:6 scale Scottish Bagpipe

    1:6 scale Scottish Bagpipe

    Bass drone top at 1:6 (play/Barbie) scale. Top-end, showing 1/8 brass tube providing top-bore and simulated center-bushing.
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    • bagpipe bass-drone scottish
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  8. 1:6 scale Scottish Bagpipe

    1:6 scale Scottish Bagpipe

    Bass drone top at 1:6 (play/Barbie) scale.
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    • bagpipe bass-drone scottish
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    Northumbrian Bagpipe update 2

    I have been fortunate; McMaster-Carr carries the odd size of brass tubing at 1-3/8 inches (this size is used on the overflow drains on old claw-foot tubs; perhaps that's why it is still available), and only $15.20 (plus S&H) for a one-foot length. I stuffed and re-drilled the stock holes at a...
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    Northumbrian bagpipe update

    My original thread has been closed, so I've opened a new one. Since I've retrieved my band-saw and drill press I've been able to return to work on the bagpipe project. I mounted a piece of mammoth ivory to the chanter, though I made errors on selection when I made the bass drone and switched...
  11. Northumrian Small Pipe Chanter, drilling finger holes

    Northumrian Small Pipe Chanter, drilling finger holes

    Finger holes marked with dial caliper, drilling with brad-point bit. Backing inserted in bore is bamboo skewer wrapped in paper to a snug but sliding fit to prevent breakout.
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    • bagpipe bit brad-point holes northumbrian
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    • Album: Northumbrian Small Pipes (NSP)
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    Northumbrian Bagpipe Project - WIP

    I've returned to my English Northumbrian Small Pipes project, after putting it aside more than a year ago. First, a view of the "workshop" while working on the project: Here's the state of the project as of a few days ago: And here's the pipe-chanter after boring and partly...
  13. Northumbrian Pipe Chanter

    Northumbrian Pipe Chanter

    Northumbrian chanter partly roughed out.
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    • bagpipe chanter norhthumberland
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    • Album: Northumbrian Small Pipes (NSP)
  14. Northumbrian Pipe Chanter

    Northumbrian Pipe Chanter

    Northumbrian chanter finish-turned in the new Nova chuck.
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    • bagpipe chanter norhthumberland
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  15. Great Highland Bagpipe (Scottish)

    Great Highland Bagpipe (Scottish)

    A typical Scottish Highland Bagpipe (AKA "GHB")
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  16. Bagpiper in action

    Bagpiper in action

    This is what I am usually doing when I am not turning - My other big hobby. This was for a "Kirkin' of the Tartan" at a local church.
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    • bagpipe kilt tartan
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    Mahogany Bagpipe regulator -- completed!

    After many months of working on prototype models, and making choices of style and keywork, I have completed the bass regulator for my Irish bagpipes: From back to front are the reed cap, mounted with Brazillian rosewood, the bass bar with a cocobolo ring, the tone-generating upper pipe...
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    Bagpipe regulator - router work completed

    The weather cooled off a bit (it was in the nineties in the shop a few days ago, my brain just goes somewhere else when it's that warm), so I made up the cauls and templates for the turned baritone Irish UP regulator and routed the key seats and slots: The seats (the flats over the holes)...
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    A tiny bagpipe drone

    Once I learned of turning between cone centers, I finally decided to start making a basic set of Northumbrian bagpipes -- small bagpipes from the north of England. I've made up the tenor drone, except for the end cap for the tuning part as I don't yet have the Ivory substitute wanted for that...
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    Books with plans for Irish bagpipe making

    I want to mention two available books with plans and information for the making of Irish Uilleann bagpipes. I have previously mentioned in another post Wilbert Garvin's "The Irish Bagpipes, their construction and maintenance" first published by the Blackstaff Press, 255A Upper Newtownards...

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