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How to make a bagpipe practice chanter reed.

DIY video on how to make your own plastic bagpipe practice chanter reeds. You may need to make some adjustments to the length and thickness of the finished reed to be able to tune it to your specific practice chanter, but if you just follow the instructions you'll have a good starting material. It'll probably take both luck and experience to be able to make a really good reed this way, but with a bit of practice you get a sounding reed which you can play in your practice chanter. The sound of the reed is not the best, it's kind of weak and "breathy", but it is tuneable and it let's you practice your scales and tunes. If the reed doesn't sound, the blades might be too thick or the reed is too narrow between the blades. Try filing of even more of the plastic until it starts sounding, or if it's too narrow you can place a thin cylindrical item (a piece of wire or something like that) between the blades and then gently try to bend the blades around it. If this doesn't works out, you may need to push the metal tube further into the reed. Almost forgot: when filing the reed, be sure to finish it by filing a sharpened edge at the tip of the blades. You do not want blunt edges (but they don't need to be razor sharp either). Also, You'll want the side edges (not the opening, the sides) of the blade completely aligned and sealed tight. The edges on the sides are supposed to lie flat next to each other, no gaps in between. Otherwise, the reed won't work. This is mostly sorted out by the shrinking tube, but make sure it's tight non the less. If it's not tight, you might want to move the metal tube further down in order to get the edges closer together. But you don't want the tube too far down the reed since that'll make the soundbox (the hollow room between the blades, just above the tube) too small. Just follow the drawing (I.E. place the metal tube a couple of millimetres below the center of the blades) and everything should work out. When flattening the metal tube, do not flatten it entirely. what you want is a sort of cone shaped tube which is open in both ends, so do not seal the flattened end of entirely. Leave a gap of about 1,5-2 mm, just like I have in the picture in the vid (I.E. I didn't flatten it any further after the picture was taken. That's about how flat it is supposed to be). Here's what the reeds sound like:    • What my homemade practice chanter reeds so...   Any questions, just let me know. Hope you like it!