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PMU Products

We are always in the hunt for new products and designs to craft in carbon fiber. Our current offerings are listed below. If you have any questions, ideas or custom instruments do not hesitate to contact us.


Precision Whistles

Concert D whistle.

Our high D whistle was a sellout in Seattle, so we are adding to our product line. If a whistle could have ever been built of ebony this is what it would sound like. The thin wall process of our tapered whistle design gives incredible response of the lower octave. when playing with other instruments these notes are rarely heard, but not with CarbonyTMcomposite! We give the whistle player a greater low end producting a volume balance in all registers. Also available in C, E, Eb, low whistle keys of D, E, Eb, F and mezzo Bb, A, G with anodized aluminum King machined fipples with brand new marbled color ebonite hard rubber tips!


Leading Tone Whistles (seven hole) Concert D whistle.

If you have ever wished your whistle could bend down another half step, this is the product for you. Based on a practice instrument for the Galician Bagpipe, this seven hole design has a perfectly offset landing for the little finger of the right hand (can be special ordered for cross handed players).  Available in D, C, E, Eb, Bb, A.


Carbony Irish Flute.Flutes  

New for 2009 a Traditional Irish Flute featuring a cylindrical outer shape with a true conical bore providing proper finger spacing. Solid Carbon Fiber headjoint with dovetail embouchure hole and engraved stainless trim! Your choice of enbouchure hole, either the Classical Slotted or Irish Traditional Oval.   Also available in F, E and Eb.


Didgeridoos Carbony Slide Didge.

We offer the worlds first carbon fiber slide tunable didgeridoo.  Our three section didge spans an octave from A to A and the two section ranges from low C all the way up to A.  The inner slide has a molded interior taper yielding a much richer tone than straight tubes,  All models available with an optional stainless mouthpiece. Since all diameters are precison ground to tight tolerences (+/-0.001") the instrument slides effortlessly and seals with no O-rings.  The carbon has been sealed and can be treated with trombone slide products.



Great Highland Bagpipe Chanters & Accessories

GHB A400 whistleThe Great Highland A440 whistle is our latest addition to this family, its a performance quality alternative to the practice chanter.  A true 440 instrument that plays with exact fingering of the Great Highland Bagpipe with the whistles ability to play two octaves.  Since it plays the highland scale it is in the key of D and has perfect intonation for sitting in an Irish session. No one will know you are working on your highland fingering technique.

The CarbonyTM practice chanter with counter sunk finger holes speaksCarbony Competion brass sole chanter. volumes above standard softwood or petroleum products. The base chanter is carbon fiber with stainless steel fitments. Accurate finger placement and tuning is key for this product.

We have developed a line of Highland chanters with Custom trim and fittings with two distinct bore geometries: Concert Bb and Competition pitch(10 Hz sharp). They are built to order with such options as a threaded reed seat, satin, mesh or gloss finish, standard or thin neck (for smaller hands).

Once these chanters are built we can trim them with black carbon, anodized aluminum, brass or stainless steel. With the anodized aluminum we provide a range of color or can match a swath upon request.

Laser marking the bell is also an option on all metal fittings (aluminum or steel) put your band logo front and center!



Gaita en Re
Galician Bagpipe

The first of all carbon fiber instruments is now available for everyone! Gaita in the key of C (Do) and D (Re) crafted from plans out of Santiago De Compostela. We also offer a practice recorder that has been modified to play the Galician scale.



MusicLark CD

Lark full-length album by Ordinance (2009)
          features CarbonyTM bagpipes and whistles on all world Celtic music
Crow
full-length album by Ordinance (2006)
          features CarbonyTM bagpipes playing Gallego Celtic music
Pelican full-length album by Ordinance (2005)
          first album by Ordinance