Hollow Mainstock Upgrade - Uilleann Pipes
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- čas přidán 18. 08. 2016
- NEVER ALTER A HISTORIC INSTRUMENT! The video shows a cheap Pakistani concert D mainstock, which has individual sockets for each drone reed. I drill them out to make 1 large common air chamber behind the 3 mounting sockets. This is the original uilleann mainstock construction from the 1700's - 1800's. The common chamber helps the 3 drones hold pitch together better as the bag pressure is changed for playing different parts of the scale, and many pipers feel the drone tone is warmer and possibly stronger in the deep bass pitch. This procedure is moderately difficult, requires a drill press for machining with a vice able to secure a round work piece, well clamped to the drill press We are drilling into hardwood with pre-existing bores, which creates much vibration and risk of damage and injury. Work slowly and very carefully. A bandsaw is best for cutting the end of the stock (a fine hacksaw can substitute with care).
- Hudba
Forstner bits won't chatter like spade bits, and they're easier to overlap holes when you're drilling
lets hear it play
Wow...that's a pakistani mainstock?? They actually bothered to use cocobolo?? That thing looks to be much higher quality than I expected based on the articles and reviews I've read. It actually looks pretty similar to the mainstock on my BC Childress pipes.
I seriously enjoy your videos, and I wouldn't even be piping if it wasn't for your your articles. Thank you so much!
Dayepipes
Oh, I am well aware of the benefits! I made an entire half-set based on a combination of your writings and a few other pipemakers who do writeups (Quinn in particular). I woefully lost everything except for the bellows in a house fire, and I never completely finished the open-stock. But regardless, it was _massively_ easier to keep the brass drones in tune that it has been with the closed stock I currently have. It hasn't been a huge hangup, because I'm still almost exclusively using it configured as a practice set. I enjoyed the pipemaking aspect of things so much that it got me into building things more than buckling down and practicing the instrument!
verdatum
Surprising, is'nt it? They are sold under the name "Roosebeck", that's the Mid-East Mfg. I got one left handed stock, drones and regs a few years ago to go with a Brian Howard practice set and was quite satisfied with the quality. The drones and regs are actually made of blackwood of a quite decent quality and the price was ridiculously low. The craftsmanship, however, leaves quite a bit of work to do if you want them to look really good ( repacing the cork with proper hemp, sanding off the awful clear laquer they put on it and properly fixing a few wobbly bits) but by and large they're a decent job.
Now that I've seen David's video there is some more work to be done still ;-)
The wood butchers are at it again.
Are you David Daye that USED to be in Ohio??
Yes, we left Columbus for Whidey Island WA in June 2000, and came back to NE Ohio where I grew up in Cuyahoga Falls since late 2008. I've been making uilleann pipes full time since 1998 when my computer support job at Ohio State U ended.
wish you lived near Columbus I'd take lessons