Whistle Winner and New Product Update

First off I want to thank all the wonderful people in Dunedin Florida for making me feel right at home. Golf, sun and record sales for PMU. My mom helped again with booth duty and we announced the new line of Carbony Didgeridoos and Low Whistles with success and sales and rolled out a new banner and sweepstakes.

The winner in a random drawing of entries for the high whistle was Joel Kuhn from Largo Florida. There was a lot of excitement over our products and constant stream of people trying out the carbon fiber sound.

As far as new products we have two didgeridoo models, the tapered 2 tone and the tunable straight slide didge. We also have low whistles in D available with other keys available on special order. My priority for the next week will be to finish up the Irish flute head joint for release.

Other business news, we are now a retailer for Mel Bay so you should see some recommended lesson book available and we are listing our more mature products on amazon.com.

Chanter winner announcement and Low whistle intro

Stone Mountain was great! Good people and a very well organized event, I was stationed right in the piper area where everyone was stopping by to test drive the latest innovation in piping technology. We also raffled off a carbon fiber competition pitch chanter. The winner in a random drawing was Richard E. D'Arata from Winter Springs Florida. I especially want to thank my friend Peter and my mom for helping me with booth duty.

I have been getting ready for the Dunedin Celtic Festival in November and have completed my development of a Carbon Fiber low whistle with an anodized aluminum mouthpiece. I will have photos and sound files up on the web site soon!

Ordinance shows this weekend, release goose and apperances in the southeast

My band Ordinance has two shows this weekend. Tonight at the Fox and Firkin in Corvallis and Sunday at the Cozmic Pizza in Eugene. Come out to hear a Carbony Gaita in action!

We have added the goose to our product line after a successful acceptance of job one.

Also PMU will have a product booth at the following two events: Stone Mountain Highland Games, Oct 20th near Atlanta and the Dunedin Celtic festival Nov 17th near Tampa. Hope to see you there!

California Gold

Pleasanton was a blast, good games, good music and established some new relationships. House of Bagpipes was impressed with the Chanters and is holding three. If you are in the bay area give Lynne Miller a call and give them a toot! Also met with Cory of Hobgoblin music who will be retailing my whistles at all future events!

Worlds first carbon fiber goose and a trip to Pleasanton

Well it is complete, the worlds first Carbony Goose! Looks and sounds great with a loud practice reed like the Gibson.

I am off to Pleasanton to show my new products, we developed a weave outer (not for the purists) for those really want that carbon fiber look. I will be camped out at the House of Bagpipe booth at the Caledonian Highland Games with products brochures and maybe even wearing a MacKenzie kilt. Stop by and see the worlds second ever carbon fiber goose!

Whistles and a Goose!

More and more good stuff following up after Seattle. I have been commissioned to build a practice chanter goose, which is my practice chanter design modified to fit into a full size bag and play as one would play a regulation chanter. The advantage of this product is one can practice both bag and finger work without waking the neighbors. Once I have acceptance of the commission don't be surprised to see this new product on the website. Also working now a with whistle maker on an aluminum fipple to fit on my whistle and a low D version of my sold out Carbony design. And probably the most exciting news is a recent project outfitting a full band, no formal announcements quite yet but the plan is to have a competition band at the games next year performing on RG MacKenzie chanters.

Seattle was a piping frienzy

The wave we made at Bellingham just keeps getting bigger, had about 20 different pipers interested in giving the carbon fiber chanter a go... Big was a common description of the sound. Also premiered the carbony whistle and sold out of stock. Big hit with accomplished musicians one of the performers showed me a trick in tuning the overtones and within an hour i had it spot on, the best whistle I've ever played were the words coming out of his mouth. It speaks lightly as most tapered designs but has the volume of an instrument twice its size. Also the practice chanter design received great accolades from everyone who tried. nice sound and easy to play, one tweak to the G as highland pipers play a minor 7th scale, will take care of this in the next build. The new signage gave no doubt as to what we sell so we are getting much better at this booth duty highland games style.

Seattle or Bust

We are preparing currently for the Seattle highland games, putting a few projects to get some products ready for introduction. will be announcing a competition pitched highland chanter with some cool trim. Also have the Bb chanters available for purchase and the Carbony whistle.

look for our booth, right near the pipe competition field!