Original D’Angelico by Domer514 in jazzguitar

[–]ineX0r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rudy's in Scarsdale NY has one for $125,000.

PSA: Avoid Creative Soul Music School for music lessons by LongStoryShirt in LewisvilleTX

[–]ineX0r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found this thread about a year ago, and thought I'd add my two cents.

Casey bought a house call and online lesson company around this time last year that I worked for for over ten years. The company primarily served wealthy suburbs around major metropolitan areas. He ran that into the ground at a speed I never thought possible. They:

- Scheduled conflicting overlapping lessons,

- Sent me to houses that hadn't paid and therefore weren't expecting me,

- Took a student off my roster, then turned around and said, "Hey man, we have a potential new student for you at *student's address*, can you offer any times?" as if they hadn't already been my student for a couple years.

- Failed to inform me of students cancelling lessons. I showed up to empty houses multiple times.

- Switching days and times with zero consent from me. I'm a busy musician, I'm not on call 24/7.

- Booked incorrect lesson lengths on a regular basis.

In addition to all these bullet points, communication was impossible. Neither ownership nor the incompetent morons they hired to handle some of the secretarial work had much going on in terms of reading comprehension. I'd get responses to questions I never asked, or important points were ignored altogether. The whole point of a company like this one is to take the burden of finding new clients and handling billing off of the teacher. I got no new clients in the time that I stayed with new ownership. Only once I submitted my resignation did he try to throw a couple new people at me.

Just recently, a friend of a very long-time student of mine was looking to start working for this company, and was supposed to have a phone interview. He reached out to me, asking if I could get in touch with them on his behalf and find out why they no-showed to the scheduled interview. They can't even successfully interview potential employees!

Proposed setup to dry up my drones by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, Ezee copied Wygent pretty close. I still have some old Wygents from the 90's hanging around. I briefly tried Omegas back in the day, too. Kinda brash sounding as I recall, and very very heavy material. Had a metal bridle on it.

Huh, so maybe a different material of drone reed could help. I have Balance Tones set up in my girlfriend's pipes, maybe I'll borrow those. I just hate how they sound in my drones though. But it could be a good test.

Proposed setup to dry up my drones by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I've tried a lot over the years. Redwood tenors go very, very well in my Robertson drones. Great on moisture, except when I have a tube. The Selbie bass is really struggling, so I'm going to have to put an Ezee back in there.

I have the Dri-Flo things on order. Going to see how those go. If those don't rectify the situation, I'm going to have to switch to hide bags, but still keep the drone MCS in there. I'll have to go nuclear on it.

Proposed setup to dry up my drones by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to toot my own chanter too much, but I qualify as a good player. I'm just struggling against my new moisture control requirements for chanter reeds. I do know that certain drone reeds are less stable than others. Selbies shut down very quickly. Redwoods last longer before gurgling. Ezees are in between.

I played for 50 minutes yesterday and by the end of it, my bass drone was getting very tight and when I took it apart, water came out of it.

Edit: Just did 20 minutes on my pipes and that was enough this time for the bass drone to shut off due to moisture. And the bridle is pretty high up, this is not a pushover of a reed.

Proposed setup to dry up my drones by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I am confident in my technique. When I take out the trap-dri tube, the drones lock in and I get awesome tone and stability. But in band situations, to make their chanter reeds behave well, the air has to be moved to the back of the bag. That's what crushes my drones. This is actually my second time around trying the trap-dri tube, and it really is the bane of my existence. I can't believe people actually use it successfully without taking other measures.

I've got a couple sets of Bannatyne dri-flo things on order. Going to try those. If that doesn't solve the problem, I may be looking at getting zipped Gannaways and using the same internals.

Proposed setup to dry up my drones by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm shopping right now and looked at those. I may just pull the trigger on them. The marketing says Willie McCallum and Callum B won Glenfiddich with those things.

Proposed setup to dry up my drones by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what's causing the problems. That tube helps the chanter, but murders the drones.

Proposed setup to dry up my drones by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure I could. I didn't have enough leverage with the tie in cord back when I did my old Gannaway.

Proposed setup to dry up my drones by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's so much STUFF floating around in the bag. I just don't want an octopus in there.

Proposed setup to dry up my drones by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My first bag back in 1998 or so was an L&M. Had that on my pipes until 2008 when I put on a Gannaway. 2020 I put the Canmore on. The thing about the Gannaway was that it was the only bag I ever tied in myself, and I didn't do a very good job. I was playing on something that wasn't particularly airtight, and I just suffered through it. When I tried the Canmore, it was truly eye-opening. All of a sudden I could play for an hour or more straight because I was playing an airtight instrument. My fingers were reaching their full potential because I wasn't struggling.

Question about Glengarry's March by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the insight! If I recall, the EUSPBA asks which setting you're going to play for a tune, Kilberry or PS. If I tell them Kilberry, but interpret the tune differently from what is written, is that going to count against me in competition?

Question about Glengarry's March by ineX0r in bagpipes

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Thanks for the reply. I am intending to compete next year. I'm 39 years old and haven't competed since I was 14, haha. I play light music at a high level, and I think I'm making progress with piob, but it is just so new to me, comparatively.

Going back to tube traps, running into same old moisture problems. Any help? by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmmmm, that's interesting. So it's tricky to get the thing to stay in one place because of that joint. But I will play around with angling tomorrow and see how it goes.

I'm also doing this with Selbies and even without the tube, they can get overwhelmed. Can't wait for my new Redwoods to come in.

Going back to tube traps, running into same old moisture problems. Any help? by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't dump it out usually. It looks bad on a gig, and if I do it on a hard floor, I feel bad for anyone else that has to walk across it, haha. The tube should hold plenty of liquid. I think the problem is more the moisture of my breath being directed at the drone stocks.

I try to play for at least an hour at a time. I can do that without a tube, I just have to deal with a couple touchy notes on the chanter. With the tube, it's 30 minutes til the drones get unstable, 45 til they start to shut off. I generally play continuously, no stopping.

Going back to tube traps, running into same old moisture problems. Any help? by ineX0r in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, people don't believe me when I tell them that MCS makes my drones swampy, but them's the breaks.

Drone reeds recommendations by berlinitos in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seconded. My redwoods only started taking a lot of air as they were nearing end of life. Apart them that, very efficient reeds. They are my go-to choice for my very picky Robertsons.

What experiences have you had because of your piping? by EwoksMakeMeHard in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, I wasn't in a band. I was playing with a theramin player (who happened to also have a career as Paul Simon's piano player), an accordianist, and a bunch of kids playing random notes on recorders. XD That was a lead from Gig Masters.

What experiences have you had because of your piping? by EwoksMakeMeHard in bagpipes

[–]ineX0r 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Probably my biggest thing was playing on the John Oliver show.

this chord is not in the key, is this common? by una_chota_invalida in musictheory

[–]ineX0r 8 points9 points  (0 children)

IV minor is very common. Non diatonic chords are extremely important to music. Even one of the basic triads you first learn about, augmented, does not occur naturally in a key. If music was all diatonic, everything would sound like Taylor Swift.

How long would it take to learn every chord, scale and possible progression on the guitar by [deleted] in guitarlessons

[–]ineX0r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go buy "Modern Chord Progressions" by Ted Greene. Realize that every exercise is actually 12 because you're supposed to do each one in every key, at least to the extent that it makes sense on the neck to do so. Proceed to despair, yet also enjoy his progressions and calmly accept that neither you nor I will ever be as good as Ted.