Drone reed

2025-Jan-29

I’ve been corresponding with “Animatorgeek” about the 3D printable Bulgarian bagpipes they designed. The exciting part (for me) about their design is the 3D printed single reed. This is exactly what I need for my Uilleann drones.

After a couple hours of work, I’ve got a working clone of their reed in OpenSCAD. It looks like this:

CAD rendering of my reed design

It looks a lot like a clarinet or saxaphone reed, but smaller. I’ve only modeled the Bulgarian chanter reed so far, but now I have an algorithm that I can give different arguments to make a tiny one.