Chanter Reeds

VIDEOS

• Herstellung von Rohrblättern für die Uilleann Pipe (Making Process of Reeds for the Uillean Pipe)
  Das ist ein Video, was einen kurzen Einblick in die Herstellung unserer Uilleann Pipe Rohrblätter gibt. Exactly.

• Tradschool - Uilleann Pipe Reedmaking Workshop
  Tradschool video August 2009

• Jim Burke makes a reed
  Forty-one minute video of Jim Burke's method on the Arizona Uilleann Piper's Society site.

• Video: Ronan Brown makes a drone reed.
  By James Kenna

TEXT

• Bagpipeworks: Reed Making Procedure
  Davy Stephenson's detailed and illustrated guide.

• Making Plastic Bagpipe Reeds
  Written explanation by Casey Burns.

• Making the Chamber Style Reed for Penny-Chanters
• Making a Stabilized Traditional Reed for Uilleann Pipe Chanters and Regulators and Penny-Chanters
  David Daye's methods.

• A Chanter Reed Method
  Michael Dooley's step-by-step explanation.

• Seth's Reed Making Workshop
  Seth Gallagher method.

• Gary's Reedmaking Calculator
  A calculator for cane tube size and/or sanding cylinder size based on slip thickness, slip width and gap between slips.

• Tom Kennedy: Irish Reeds
  Photos of some reeds by irish reed makers.

• Uilleann Pipes Reed Making Guide
  Evertjan 't Hart's step-by-step method.

• Evertjan 't Hart: Chanter Reed Specifications Database
  A collection of dimensions of reeds for various pipermakers' chanters

• Erin's Call Uilleann Pipes and Reed Making
  Tom Kennedy's method.

Drone Reeds

• Synthetic Drone Reeds by John Arnold, Salt Lake Piping Club
  Description of the process of making drone reeds with brass bodies and styrene tongues

• Constructing Wood/Cane Composite Drone Reeds
  Tim Britton's documention.

• How to make Double-Bend Artificial Drone Reeds for Uilleann Pipe Drones
  David Daye's method.

Other Reeds

VIDEOS

• Bagpipe Reed CNC Machine
  A video of a reed-making machine

• Quasi-static non-linear characteristics of double-reed instruments
  Scientific analysis of (non-bagpipe) reeds.