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And I've seen "das Bagpipe" (neuter) too :boggle: Never heard of that ... did I miss something in school ??? But the German language takes strange paths from time to time. In German the gender of composited words is in this case depending to the ending: Dudel-sack --> der Sack --> masculi...

Well ... I'm only at 63 deg North and know that there are guys more up north. One member of the forum (Mikko aka uilleannfinlander) is living in Oulu (Finland) which is at 65 deg North. I heard of another UP in Umeå (Sweden) which could be about 64 deg N. Then there is Eivind in Trondheim (Norway) w...

Am I missing something, or is there something odd about the photographs ? The end mount of the regulator in the original photo provided by Thies shows ivory with a tuning pin - now look at the second last photo provided by Joseph - brass, no tuning pin, where's the ivory and pin gone? Could be that...

The link to the auction is here

Estimated price is 2000 EUR.

Hello!
Why do you post this over and over again? It's now already the 4th time that you make a new thread for your sale ...
/TiE

Finland in european songcontest... http://www.eurovision.tv/english/img/03_finland_left_2006.jpg just wonder who's gonna win :D The song contest or the Battle for Middle-earth ??? :twisted: /MarcusR Looks like Sweden is on the side of the elves ?!? :P http://www.eurovision.tv/english/img/06_sweden_...

[..] Thies I couldna get the 2 dots above the u (how do ye do it?)that is why I spelled it the way ye saw it.[..] I just used the key on my keyboard ... or actually the key for the dots and the the vowel. Ü ü Ï ï Ö ö Ä ä Ë ë Ÿ ÿ ... :D Buy yourself another keyboard and have fun ... or try the ALT-o...

So that all can write the name of the city correctly ... here are some ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü!
--> Tübingen

tommykleen wrote:I had heard that Heike had moved on, true?
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I thought so too ...

Rogge is also revising his pricelists right now ... I wonder in which direction

/TiE

How many people does Andreas Rogge have working with him ? I think it's one or two. Jens is definately there and there was another person, but I don't remember his/hers name. @ rory: But it's a quite normal range for a pipemaker in that region. If you look at the webpages of Alban Faust , Bodo Schu...

PJ wrote:http://www.uilleannobsession.com/classifieds.html#11

I only wonder about the asked price. 900 USD for a chanter which comes new for about 720 USD ?!?

According to his webpage he's still in business with pipes:
http://www.seerywoodwind.com/

/TiE

Well ... I wouldn't say that you shouldn't try elder, but it's much easier to make drone reeds from cane, as it can be splitted and with elder you have to cut quite a lot (i.e. everything). It also needs more cleaning etc before it can be used. I'm using elder drone reeds and some others do too! The...

Joseph E. Smith wrote:Thies, thanks a million!

No problem ... just another way to prevent myself from doing some serious work ... but still getting paid for!

X: 1
T: Wise Maid, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:DE|F2FG FEDE|FAAB AFED|d2eg fdec|dBAG BEED|
F2FG FEDE|FAAB AFED|d2eg fdec|dBAG FD:|
|:FA|d2AG FDFA|dfaf gfeg|fedf eAcA|dfed cA A2|
BAGB ADFD|dfaf gfed|Bdce dBAG|FGEF D2:|

(from www.thesessoin.org)