My Pipes (McCallums) (Come and vote)
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My Pipes (McCallums) (Come and vote)
Hey, these are my pipes. I just bought them in April 2005. They're class!
They're nickel with a zoomorphic design and immitation ivory with inset nickel! They look great.
And I don't use the chanter thats in the picture, because i use my band one. But its the chanter that goes with the pipes, so i thought i'd take take the foto with that chanter.
Bruce
P.S I've added a foto of me playing them from my band trip to germany in October 2005
They're nickel with a zoomorphic design and immitation ivory with inset nickel! They look great.
And I don't use the chanter thats in the picture, because i use my band one. But its the chanter that goes with the pipes, so i thought i'd take take the foto with that chanter.
Bruce
P.S I've added a foto of me playing them from my band trip to germany in October 2005
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Nickel cleaning
Hi,
No the nickel isn't hard to keep clean really! You just have to wipe them down once in a while! For example I clean them 1 every 2 weeks, and as you can see from the pictures, the nickel is clean.
Thanks
Bruce
No the nickel isn't hard to keep clean really! You just have to wipe them down once in a while! For example I clean them 1 every 2 weeks, and as you can see from the pictures, the nickel is clean.
Thanks
Bruce
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mcCallums
I hav a set of McCallums as well, but mine aren't nickled
still a good set of pipes though
still a good set of pipes though
Your mom plays the bagpipes!
Yes the ab4's are a very nice pipe, A have a friend with the same exact pipes, I personaly only have the ab2's because I am only beginning, But my next door naughbor actualy lets me use his McCallum AB10's for compititions, and demonstrations:
http://www.mccallumbagpipes.com/bagpipesab10.htm
http://www.mccallumbagpipes.com/bagpipesab10.htm
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Sound
They have the truest, and best sounding drones i've ever heard.
Sound class.
Bruce
Sound class.
Bruce
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I have the exact same set of pipes!
They sound great, much better than any pipes even close to their price range.
http://www.thepipershut.com/shop/index. ... evstart=12
$1200 USD!!!
They sound great, much better than any pipes even close to their price range.
http://www.thepipershut.com/shop/index. ... evstart=12
$1200 USD!!!
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Bad metal works on new Maccallum pipes
We just got 4 sets of brand new Mccallum pipes for our band (SPAD in Denmark) and all are very hard to keep clean on the metal parts. After just one to two weeks all the metal parts went doll. Hundreds of emails and phone calls to the provider and Mccallums couldn't help out. The models are one AB4 like this one here, and four AB1's.
So if you love to polish you pipes once a week, go for Mccallums,- if not, find something else. We have some nice Kintail pipes in our band. It seems like the new models form Mccallums are fitted with bad metal parts,- you must have been lucky to get one of the older models here.
By the way, I owe and play four sets of Mccallum AB4's myself, so it is not just to make you buy another brand of pipes.
So if you love to polish you pipes once a week, go for Mccallums,- if not, find something else. We have some nice Kintail pipes in our band. It seems like the new models form Mccallums are fitted with bad metal parts,- you must have been lucky to get one of the older models here.
By the way, I owe and play four sets of Mccallum AB4's myself, so it is not just to make you buy another brand of pipes.
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Henrik Franke
A piper from Denmark
A piper from Denmark