{"id":1053,"date":"2011-08-02T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2011-08-02T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T16:34:32","slug":"mclaren-synthetic-chanter-reed-strength-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"McLaren synthetic chanter reed strength guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard by now about <a href=\"http:\/\/reedsmclaren.com\/Reed%20Info.html\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm McLaren&#8217;s synthetic bagpipe chanter reeds<\/a>. He gives a rough guide as to the strength ratings he uses (13-20) by giving the equivalent values in inches of water for 3 of his reed strengths (13 = 18 in. H2O, 17 = 28 in. H2O, 20 = 35 in. H2O). It is immediately obvious that the scale is roughly linear. So this is a trivial post, I&#8217;m just going to fill in the gaps for ya.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>McLaren<\/td>\n<td>in. H2O<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>McLaren<\/td>\n<td>in. H2O<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12.97<\/td>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>18.07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13.38<\/td>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>20.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13.79<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>22.93<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14.2<\/td>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>25.36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14.61<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>27.79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15.02<\/td>\n<td>23<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td>30.23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15.43<\/td>\n<td>24<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td>32.66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15.84<\/td>\n<td>25<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td>35.09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16.26<\/td>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16.67<\/td>\n<td>27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17.08<\/td>\n<td>28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17.49<\/td>\n<td>29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17.9<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18.31<\/td>\n<td>31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18.72<\/td>\n<td>32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19.13<\/td>\n<td>33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19.54<\/td>\n<td>34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19.95<\/td>\n<td>35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The equations are:<br \/>\nMcLaren = 0.41095890411 * (in. H2O) + 5.570776255708<br \/>\nin. H2O = 2.431432432432 * (McLaren) \u2013 13.540540540541<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard by now about Malcolm McLaren&#8217;s synthetic bagpipe chanter reeds. He gives a rough guide as to the strength ratings he uses (13-20) by giving the equivalent values in inches of water for 3 of his reed strengths (13 = 18 in. H2O, 17 = 28 in. H2O, 20 = 35 in. H2O). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McLaren synthetic chanter reed strength guide<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","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=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}