ViperPiper's Bagpipe Tunes

For anyone else still lurking, what do you make of the new format ?

Personally I think it's a shame to lose the old skin/artwork, but if it makes the site easier to maintain and the hackers and spammers at bay it has to be a good thing. Here's to a popular new year for ViperPiper

That makes more sense.

If it ever drops below zero/freezing at all, then that's cold enough to stop playing, I must admit.

I've seen the idea, but never used one. I've tried a contact mic on the drones (the way I'd attach a tuner to a fiddle) but it was less effective than holding the tuner over the drone. That was with a cheap contact mic and the contact should be better with these fixed ones.

Was the price reasonable ?

Sorry Spicy - I don't get you. You said that you'd recommend the Clanrye because apart from very cold weather, they're pretty stable. Then you said that you'd steer clear because they sound horrible and cane is better. Or are you just saying that you like them in the rain, but not when anyone else t...

Hi - I read some of those comments on their facebook page, so I doubt I'd think seriously about it until those problems were sorted - and the price came down a lot. I was talking about Bagpipe Player, though, which is free, but which I could not install on Windows 7. i understand that it's a 32-64bi...

I wonder if this will start to take over from Bagpipe Player for playing back large collections of sheet music - I hadn't been able to use that on Windows 7, but last week one of the kids from the band had it on a laptop at practice, so I need to find out how he made it work.

Sounds like they can play. My laptop soundcard isn't good enough to tell how good the recording is, unfortunately. That makes it a real pain when deciding whether to buy music or not. Is it all pipe music or do they work some songs in there as well ?

I couldn't see a link to any of their music, nor find them on YouTube, so something that showcases them would be wise from their point of view. Presumably there will eventually be something to listen to when they are listed on Amazon. For something else interesting on Gaelic music and song, I was se...

First question is whether the bag has a zip. I used to have a hybrid Shepherd bag - synthetic inner and hide outer. When it started leaking, there seemed to be sections of the hide bag that were leaking in a porous-sort-of-way. In reality, though, it could have been leaking at some distance from the...

We've just heard that prices for tickets for the Olympic seats will be priced up to £2012 each, although prices for other events - qualifying in obscure sports by people you will never have heard of will be much cheaper, especially for little kids. That's for the tickets that are available. It proba...

It didn't work for me - maybe it didn't take off....

On another thread someone asked about McLaren Synthetic Chanter Reeds.

I know absolutely nothing about them, but maybe if there is more than one type on the market they will start to get better.

It might not stop some lowlife grabbing them, but it will certainly make it harder for them to pass the pipes off on someone else.

And if you just lose them, then you've a much better chance of being reunited with them quickly.

I did buy a Clanrye reed about fifteen-eighteen years ago and was never very happy with it, but it could have been the poor quality chanter I had at the time. It came with a bridle that broke and I could not replace that, which really didn't help.

Fifteen years on, maybe they're better.

Well if you can put the file together in a Word or (very) clean .pdf document, then it costs nothing. If you have handwritten manuscripts and rough notes and want someone else to collate it, then obviously you'd have to pay someone. Our music was written using Sibelius, then exported to Word to have...