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    Re: Carbony?

    hmm.. Had a look through their site.. Kinda seems a bit gimicky to me.. $225 for a practicee chanter and $335 for a pipe chanter??? Really? I doubt there's much improvement over poly to warrant those prices? If I had $335 to spend on a pipe chanter Id get a Strathmore blackwood and still have money left for a case of beer! LOL!

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    Re: Carbony?

    Quote Originally Posted by highland mafia View Post
    hmm.. Had a look through their site.. Kinda seems a bit gimicky to me.. $225 for a practicee chanter and $335 for a pipe chanter??? Really? I doubt there's much improvement over poly to warrant those prices? If I had $335 to spend on a pipe chanter Id get a Strathmore blackwood and still have money left for a case of beer! LOL!
    Yeh thought that too but was more interested in the sound quality and performance in various weather conditions

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    I would suspect the sound quality would be nothing special.. At best equal to wood. As far as weather goes. It's the reed weather effects not so much the chanter..

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    Re: Carbony?

    My friend has one, the whistle sounds really good. He has several of the tin kind and he really loves the carbon one too.
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    Re: Carbony?

    the only up-side to that company that I've really seen it the range of tunings offered. Other than that everything I've seen from them sounds like really good wood, even the whistles.

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    Re: Carbony?

    I know that reeds are effected by weather and that wood chanters really require blowing in/warming up to get the best tone from them and that poly chanters are not as good tone wise as wood! SO it comes back to the sound quality and simplicity of use would the carbon chanter give a tone like wood with the easy usage as a poly chanter.

    The sound bite I've listened to isn't very helpful as the player is dicking about bending notes as he play's so you don't get a true sample of the chanters sound oh and it's indoors too.

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    Re: Carbony?

    Quote Originally Posted by rsvpiper View Post
    I know that reeds are effected by weather and that wood chanters really require blowing in/warming up to get the best tone from them and that poly chanters are not as good tone wise as wood! SO it comes back to the sound quality and simplicity of use would the carbon chanter give a tone like wood with the easy usage as a poly chanter.

    The sound bite I've listened to isn't very helpful as the player is dicking about bending notes as he play's so you don't get a true sample of the chanters sound oh and it's indoors too.
    My 2 cents.. Well ok so maybe you'd get the quality or wood in any weather. Would that slight advantage be worth $335 to me? No. But that's me. And believe me I love my bagpipe tech stuff! But this one just dosent seem to have a very good musical benifit/cost ratio...They look neat though .

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