{"id":1013,"date":"2011-07-18T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2014-08-08T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T14:00:03","slug":"robertsons-nuff-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"Robertson’s, ’nuff said."},"content":{"rendered":"

My buddy has too many bagpipes. Which is great for me, as I get to muck about with the ones he’s not playing now and again. But, today was a special occassion, he lent me his babies. A set of 1920ish ebony Robertson’s that have had the casein ringcaps and bushes replaced with moose antler by Michael MacHarg. They are otherwise flat combed with nickel ferrules. Droooool…….<\/p>\n

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The other pipe is a set of 1950ish Robertson’s, fully mounted, with a replacement blowstick (original mount and brass lined) by Murray Huggins over at Colin Kyo bagpipes. Drooooooooool some more……<\/p>\n

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Kron poly chanter with Gilmour reed, I think. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

1920ish Robertson’s – Ezeedrone reeds – Hector the Hero and the Iron Man<\/a> (two wonderful tunes that I didn’t royally screw up by the famous James Scott Skinner)\u00a0–\u00a0Hector the Hero and the Iron Man<\/a> (the 2nd is the original audio file that appeared on the blog, but it was the ‘wrong’ one as I normally normalize the recording to make it louder, so it’s preserved here so you can tell the difference between a normalized and non-normalized recording)<\/p>\n

1950ish Robertson’s – Canning tenor and Wygent bass reeds – Loch Tay Boat Song, March of the King of Laois, and Bessie McIntyre<\/a><\/p>\n

Edit: I wasn’t too happy with the above recording, but I’m not too happy with this one either. The reed was sharp on the top hand in the Colin Kyo chanter, especially high G, which gave rise to a few odd sounding grace notes due to the heavy taping required. While dunking a reed in water for a little bit will certainly make it easier, it seems to compromise the reed as well. Oh well. I’ll have to think on this practice some more as a viable way to ease up reeds that arrive in the mail that require 50+ inches of water to make a sound. Anyways, here’s the MSR where I apparently forgot what part I was playing in the strathspey.<\/p>\n

Major Manson’s Farewell to Clachantrushal, Inverary Castle, and Rejected Suitor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My buddy has too many bagpipes. Which is great for me, as I get to muck about with the ones he’s not playing now and again. But, today was a special occassion, he lent me his babies. A set of 1920ish ebony Robertson’s that have had the casein ringcaps and bushes replaced with moose antler … Continue reading Robertson’s, ’nuff said.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghbsolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}