Busy Summer turns to Fall

Hello Everyone!

Its been a great summer and working on new products like crazy! If you haven't been to the website lately please take a look www.pipemakersunion.com fresh with a photo of Julian Stringle with one of my D whistles at the Bitbury Folk Festival!

I have also added quite a number of new products, high whistle in C and the Great Highland Whistle in A440 (plays exact fingering and scale as the bagpipe chanter by the same name). We also now offer a full Galician Bagpipe, in C and D built to order with one, two or three drones. Check out the product page on the website or the shopping cart for more details.

A couple of more 2008 appearances, Dunedin Celtic festival in November and I will have my inventory on display in Corvallis at the Artisans Market at the old Rexall drug store in downtown from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

In preparation for the NAMM show in Anaheim in January we will be revising all product pricing over the next two weeks. If you are interested in a holiday purchase I would encourage you to place your orders before Thanksgiving.

Keep the Jigs Jumping and the Reels Running!

Rob

New Shopping Cart, Tunable Flute and G Whistle!

Hello everyone,

We have revamped our shopping cart and now take credit cards, super exciting! We have a two piece tunable tapered Irish Flute now with adjustable aluminum plug. Also complete and soon to be added is the Low G whistle. This whistle gives you the low whistle experience without all the finger stretching.

Also our products will be available at the Oregon Scottish Cultural Festival in Albany, Oregon on Saturday April 5th and a return to Dunedin, Florida for their Highland Games on April 12th. Stop by if you are in the area and check out all the newness.

Rob

Record sales two festivals running!

o'hello,

Welcome to the Pipe Makers Union 2008 St Patricks update. Back to back weekend Irish festivals in Dallas Texas and Eugene Oregon set record sales and a promising start to 2008!

My band Ordinance will be performing throughout Corvallis on March 17th, so if you are in town stop by Squirrel's, the Fox and Firkin and Cloud 9 for the festivities. We have a new guitar player that has quite a voice. check out myspace.com/ordinancecelticmusic for more info.

Since I've been back in Oregon I have finalized the design for the Low G whistle with anodized aluminum mouthpiece. The finger reach on this product is much easier than the Low D and it voices both octaves well. Please let me know if you are interested in trying one at rob_gandara@alum.mit.edu

The winner of the whistle drawing at NTIF was Jim Atkinson of Dallas, Texas. Congratulations, Jim. The highlight of Dallas was all the professional players all giving the high and low D whistles a workout.


In Eugene we had quite a crowd when a Todd Johnson of Pacific Winds started demoing all my didgeridoos.




I also want to thank my father for helping with booth duty in Dallas and Tracey Yee in Eugene they are both excellent sales associates and wouldn't be possible for me to continue without their support.

opening day 2008

Been busy in the shop this winter retooling the product line for 2008 and was commissioned to build a three section slide tunable full octave didgeridoo with tapered opening and stainless trim.

Some breakthroughs and investments provide a new look for the new year, all products will have a weave outer and the company logo engraved on all metal. Website should be updated shortly with a new shopping cart as well. The product tour begins at the North Texas Celtic Music Festival in Dallas Feb 29th, March 1st and 2nd. www.ntif.org. Some great acts this year so if you are in the area or are looking for a good road trip this will be the place to be! The following weekend I will be showing the new lineup of products at the Eugene Irish festival www.eugeneirishfest.org.

Enjoy!

Rob