{"id":99,"date":"2008-09-04T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T00:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=99"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:09:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:09:52","slug":"ray-hughes-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Ray Hughes Pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have two sets of recordings on my first impressions of a Ray Hughes bagpipe.\u00a0African blackwood pipes, plain turned, with satin wood button mounts in what Ray calls the Gordon style (no cord guides, banner ribbon used instead, chalice type top).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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1 – My first practice with them:<\/p>\n

No name bass drone reed (gray body, don’t like this reed), 2 older style Henderson drone reeds with big thick carbon fiber tongues. No name chanter reed in Ray Hughes chanter. Only one tune recorded before kid went to sleep:<\/p>\n

Amazing Grace<\/a><\/p>\n

2 – My second practice with them:<\/p>\n

All MG reeds, tenors had A440 extenders on them as the drones were tuning pretty sharp. African Blackwood Naill solo chanter with no name reed. Same drones as above:<\/p>\n

March I don’t know the name of<\/a><\/p>\n

Scarce o’ Tatties<\/a><\/p>\n

Sweet Maid of Mull<\/a><\/p>\n

Both recorded with a Zoom H2 sitting on a dresser in the bedroom. All my broken in reeds were in other chanters so I kind of suck in these recordings as I was blowing like crazy to keep everything going. Keep that in mind!<\/p>\n

Peace, Patrick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have two sets of recordings on my first impressions of a Ray Hughes bagpipe.\u00a0African blackwood pipes, plain turned, with satin wood button mounts in what Ray calls the Gordon style (no cord guides, banner ribbon used instead, chalice type top).\u00a0 1 – My first practice with them: No name bass drone reed (gray body, … Continue reading Ray Hughes Pipes<\/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-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghbsolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}