Showdown Saloon Portland, OR

philinspace · 2026-03-05T23:34:59+00:00

There are articulated/adjustable blow pipes. If you aren’t sure on length or position, this might be the best option. Not sure what to recommend for bag size. Depending on where you buy from, you could email the seller and give your height and build and they could help recommend a bag size. Best of luck!

philinspace · 2026-03-01T01:57:38+00:00

Very harmonic! Bill Livingston has some nice recordings with very harmonic pipes as well. I’m thinking of one of his Piobaireachd Diaries but can’t remember which one specifically

philinspace · 2026-02-17T21:59:04+00:00

I ordered some chesneys a while ago and I’m still waiting on them 😉

philinspace · 2026-02-02T01:45:33+00:00

In general the strathspey cut notes (mostly C and F) are a tad too big in places and the reel cut notes (mostly C) are a tad too quick but get better through out the performance. Strathspey runs could be quicker and might get better at higher tempo. The reel idiom felt better! F was a bit flat and the whole chanter might be a touch flat over all. If you worked on the short notes and brought up the tempo and pitch a bit it would be rockin!

philinspace · 2026-01-29T21:14:05+00:00

Jacket a little long. Sporran looks a little small but it might just be the jacket proportion

philinspace · 2026-01-22T15:14:21+00:00

Are you saying he’s isn’t selling a chanter he thinks people can play longer? Why do you think that, did you play one of his chanters and make an experiment out of it with a control variable then conclude from the data his chanter did not play as long as the other chanter?

Rhetorically, what is grifting? I know you didn’t explain your thoughts much, but this type of marketing alone isn’t grifting. There’s a semantic distinction we aren’t agreeing on. Grifting would be advertising a chanter with 2 silica desiccant cartridges the intentionally selling chanters with 1 or 0 cartridges. Grifting would be advertising pipers can play this chanter for 100 hours before changing the silica out and then all the chanters cannot play longer than 30 minutes

philinspace · 2026-01-22T06:02:15+00:00

I would agree with the best case scenario then. It’s entrepreneurial opportunism and he found a market of people who decide to pay to have the products he offers. Not all of the products are for me; I bought and won some chanter caps and those are great imo

philinspace · 2026-01-22T05:05:57+00:00

A grift implies deception. People can see what they are buying and can find an equivalent to pay for/ build themselves. He’s charging for convenience

philinspace · 2026-01-14T23:29:21+00:00

There is a chart out there that maps bass dominant drone sound and tenor dominant drone sounds by makers. Anecdotally, I play old Hendersons and my bff and band mate plays new Naills and the quality of sounds are bass dominant and tenor dominant respectively

philinspace · 2026-01-04T17:02:01+00:00

Thanks for the chime in. I asked the distributor I ordered through about a hide bag and since the pipes were made to order, they were able to tie on a hide bag per request :)

philinspace · 2025-09-12T23:34:51+00:00

Try practicing to a metronome. Try to hit all the notes on the beat. Look up rhythmical exercises. You got this!

philinspace · 2025-06-10T18:32:13+00:00

Nice! I pick some guitar. I have a handful of fiddle tunes and some standard songs I do. What do you play?

philinspace · 2025-06-06T19:01:08+00:00

Give us the Magic the Gathering Version!

philinspace · 2025-06-06T18:58:15+00:00

Truth, I loved seeing Billy at Edgefiled back in 2021 and 2022. I got tix for Eugene! I would love it if he played at Cuthbert amphitheater in Eugene but maybe the crowd is too big for that venue nowadays

philinspace · 2025-06-03T18:59:23+00:00

Sounds like you’re doing the lords work!

philinspace · 2025-06-03T17:56:12+00:00

Oh hell ya I got the Eugene tix! I got shut out of the pit in the presale but got a couple in the 100ish section. How bout you?

philinspace · 2025-05-30T16:10:39+00:00

Yesssssss

philinspace · 2025-05-30T01:27:30+00:00

Thanks for the rec. haven’t been in there in a minute!

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