{"id":4520,"date":"2023-11-10T15:14:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandergluchowski.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2023-11-10T15:14:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:14:57","slug":"tenor-drone-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/2023\/11\/10\/tenor-drone-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenor Drone Top"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past Friday (11\/3\/23), I began printing the updated tenor drone top print, this time, in the correct size!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandergluchowski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-3.06.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a bagpipe competition in Richmond, VA early Saturday morning, but I let myself into the DKC and pulled it off the printer after nearly 13 hours of printing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandergluchowski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6348-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree supports looked fantastic, as they always do. However, they were not as easy to remove as I had expected, especially those that were inside the drone. It was a bit of a messy process, but after some snipping, ripping, and sanding, it turned out alright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandergluchowski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_6389-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Later that night, I popped it onto my pipes to see how it would sound. It was a bit finicky, but I was able to get it to work! By finicky, I mean that the sound produced by the reed was very quavery, and not pleasant to the ears. I messed around with the reed a bit, and tried to situate the drone higher up on the tuning pin, and that seemed to have resolved the problem!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bagpipelesson.com\/uploads\/1\/2\/4\/5\/12455850\/7276195.jpg\" alt=\"Bagpipe Anatomy - BAGPIPE LESSON\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">https:\/\/www.bagpipelesson.com\/bagpipe-anatomy.html<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, I wanted to add the beading and combing to the drone (these are purely aesthetic, but are a large part of the history and design of the instrument), but I ended up working on the shape of my tenor drone top instead. I should save the beading and combing for when I have my own Blackwood pipes back in my hands so I can take some accurate measurements instead of merely guessing from Google images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandergluchowski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-3.04.31-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I narrowed down the neck of the drone so that it would look a little less bulbous and a bit more traditional. I also did this with the beading and combing process in mind, as that wouldn\u2019t have looked great on a rotund design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandergluchowski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-3.11.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also wanted to showcase the sketch (the drawing that later revolves into a 3D model). It\u2019s messy. I know. I like to have all of the lengths (mm) displayed so that I can change lengths by typing instead of dragging and dropping. I often work super zoomed-in, so those labels aren\u2019t as jumbled, but zooming out is stressful and I don\u2019t recommend it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway- I just copied the tenor drone over to a new project and started testing to see if I could simply stretch it out to make the bass drone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nope! Not that easy. I\u2019ll spend some more time on it next week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday (11\/3\/23), I began printing the updated tenor drone top print, this time, in the correct size! I had a bagpipe competition in Richmond, VA early Saturday morning, but I let myself into the DKC and pulled it off the printer after nearly 13 hours of printing. The tree supports looked fantastic, as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printed-bagpipes-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}