The ROS Great Highland Bagpipe Chanter
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The ROS solo chanter is played by P/M Mats d Hermansson, winner of the
piobaireachd advanced competitions at:

 The Copenhagen Winter Competition 1999-The Scandinavian Championships 1999
The Copenhagen Winter Competition 2000 -The Scandinavian Championships 2000

 

Alexander Littorin (yes my son) playing his Slow Air and Jig at The Scandinavian Championships 2000

 on his old Peter Henderson and a ROS-chanter for judge Collin McLellan

 
• Every Ros chanter is custom made to order, hand-crafted from  the start to the end.

• We only use superior special selected instrument woods that gives the chanter a very rich harmony and a nice mellow tone, particularly desirable to the solo or competition piper.

• Our standard wood  is first class straight grain African Blackwood from Mozambique but chanters can also be made in a range of different woods on the customers request.

• We can offer chanters made of the following woods; light red- dark red- and black Rosewood,Mopane and Madagascar Ebony. (other woods on request)

• We can also make chanters of the customers own piece of wood.

• We can today offer two different chanter constructions, one that have its best balance between 460 to 470 Hz and the other between 470 and 480 Hz.

• Our chanter scale is based on the intervals published and defined by Semuas MacNeill and John A. MacLellan.

• All chanters are tested and analyzed before shipping.

• Suitable reeds for the Ros chanter are William Morrison, Murray Henderson and MacAlister. We will in the near future offer our own reeds.

• We don't make chanters in synthetic materials.

 

TESTIMONIALS

05/30/98
The Scandinavian Championships was held in Holbæk, Denmark.
 Judges at the competition was:
 PM Roderick MacLeod, The Scottish Power
 PM Angus MacDonald, Scotts Guards
 LD Poul Turner, Victoria Police
A few days later this statement arrived to me by E-mail from Scotland.
"The best sounding chanters in the whole competition were made by Rolf Littorin, Sweden,
and you can quote this."

Pipe Major Angus MacDonald MBE

 

Dear Rolf,

Your chanters are on their way  back to you having been well tried by Finlay, Myself, Alan MacDonald
and P/M Angus MacDonald.
I loved the polished, higher pitched one and everyone agreed that they were of very high quality.

PM Iain MacDonald

Front ROS Kingwood chanter, back ROS African Blackwood chanter

Ros Kingwood chanters are made of  Mexican / Para / Kingwood, Dalbergia Congestifolia, a small solitary tree, seldom found growing in groups. A rare wood found growing only down parts of the West coast of Mexico.