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Where can I get GANAAN products you might ask? Reseller High Country Scottish Shoppe   Advertising     This blog post will help you find some of our products around the world in different online retail shoppes and where our advertising can be found. We will keep this list up-to-date as new resellers are added into our family. Can't find a reseller in your area? Contact sales@ganaan.ca to have us contact your local supplier to bring in our products.      

We have been hinting at this new product for the past several weeks and it has finally arrived. The Reed Wizard © is available at www.tartantown.com The design of the Reed Wizard © tool is based on a reed mandrel hand-made for Terry Lee by his piping teacher, James MacMillan. Over the years, Terry relied on this tool for reed manipulation with the SFU Pipe Band. The Reed Wizard © is made from T6061-T6 aircraft aluminum for the handle and cover, this makes it light weight and strong. It is the anodized in a variety of colors and laser etched...

Recognizing the need for high quality recording of the bagpipes and drums, GANAAN Highland Manufacturing has set forth to build a recording studio dedicated to your needs.

Located in Surrey, BC, the GANAAN Highland Sound Studios offers a recording booth capable of handling solos, duo, trios and quartets comfortably playing the bagpipes and drums; however, we are not limited and if you want to bring a keyboard, guitar or other musical instrument along we can provide inputs to record them as well.

Our engineering department looked at what tuning blocks do and came up with some solutions to common problems. The main problem identified was how much of the setting surface can be used. With a couple of refinements in design we are able to achieve 35% more surface area being in contact with the drum rims. This gives the drummer the ability to achieve a better and more consistent set on every bolt. Our manufacturing process allows us to create any combination of colors and opacity (how much light can be seen through the tuning block) allowing every drummer to choose...

Our first commission piece is very interesting. A mount for an upright Mussier glockenspiel to be played horizontally allowing the musician to use both hands. Mussier Glockenspiel - www.musiciansfriend.com/marching-band/musser-m-2041-glockenspiel We jumped at the challenge and went right to work designing a new mounting frame and attachment that would incorporate our unique GTR Mounting System used with Side Drums. Made from aluminum 6061-T6 our GTR Mussier Glock Mount is lightweight  and easily converts the rails over allowing the player to be back making music with two hands in about 15 minutes. Interested in having a project designed or purchasing this mounting...