What are they?

[powderpost]

Here is something to have a guess at. What are these and what are they used for?

Jim




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[Christos]

Replacement for the plastic covers over the ends of the collapsible fishing rods.

[kcam]

End protectors for spindle and bowl gouges :roll:

[powderpost]

Replacement for the plastic covers over the ends of the collapsible fishing rods.

nope :D

[powderpost]

End protectors for spindle and bowl gouges :roll:

nope :D

[kcam]

They look like something that mobyturns has turn up so how about protection for some type of surveyors equipment :U

[powderpost]

They look like something that mobyturns has turn up so how about protection for some type of surveyors equipment :U

Nope.. :U

A clue...... They are used in conjunction with a very well known musical instrument from the British Isles.

Jim

[Oldgreybeard]

Mouthpiece for bagpipes?
Bob

[Mobyturns]

They look like something that mobyturns has turn up so how about protection for some type of surveyors equipment :U

I thought thingymejigs from a clever old buggar. :D Kerry I think Jim's efforts put me to shame. :wink:

[smiife]

Hi jim,
I was going to say end caps for bagpipes ?
Whatever they are i like the celtic knot , i
will have to try one day :o

[dai sensei]

Don't know what they are, but they could be used as thumb screws :U

[powderpost]

Mouthpiece for bagpipes?
Bob

Close Bob.

[powderpost]

They are chanter covers. A chanter is the part of a set of bag pipes that the fingers operate on to produce that beautiful sound. The chanter contains a reed that dries out. The covers protect the reed in the chanter.

You don't think the bag pipes produce very nice music??? :D. Now there is a line to play with??? :D

Jim

[kcam]

:2tsup: :2tsup:

[hughie]

They are chanter covers. A chanter is the part of a set of bag pipes that the fingers operate on to produce that beautiful sound. The chanter contains a reed that dries out. The covers protect the reed in the chanter.

You don't think the bag pipes produce very nice music??? :D. Now there is a line to play with??? :D

Jim
are the skirl of the pipes.

[A Duke]

I thought you were going too say handles for a doodle sack. :wink:

[Colin62]

They are chanter covers. A chanter is the part of a set of bag pipes that the fingers operate on to produce that beautiful sound. The chanter contains a reed that dries out. The covers protect the reed in the chanter.

You don't think the bag pipes produce very nice music??? :D. Now there is a line to play with??? :D

Jim

They're called dry-stocks. The stock is the bit that gets tied into the bag, and the pipes slot into them. To protect the reed from the high humidity in the bag, people started using an extra stock to put the chanter into, which is where the name comes from. Of course the reed would then dry out, so they started using blocked off dry-stocks to keep the moisture in the reed fairly constant.

I've been playing the bagpipes since 1976. We didn't bother with dry-stocks much in those days, probably because the old leather bags breathed better than the synthetic ones we use nowadays.

[Christos]

Interesting.

[Tim Creeper]

Well there you go. I thought they were thimbles for a masochist.:doh: