seamed vs drawn leadpipe

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JerryY
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seamed vs drawn leadpipe

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Educate me. Differences, preferences? Another can-o-worms... What makes one substantially different than the other.
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Re: seamed vs drawn leadpipe

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The brassark has a pretty good description of how they feel it affects the sound:

http://brassark.com/leadpipes.html

I haven't really jumped into the leadpipe rabbit hole for the most part. I will say however that the Elkhart 8H leadpipe I got for my Kanstul 1588 is my favorite, over the Minick style pipes that came with it.
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I have an Edwards and a Brassark copper pipe. One seamed, one not. They play remarkably the same.

The difference was I wanted two for two slides and both companies only had one at the time I bought. SO they are different, but play the same.
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Re: seamed vs drawn leadpipe

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Thank you, I was interested that you find the seamed vs unseamed so similar. Lots of players talk about the seamed 32H pipe. I'm curious if its just a different pipe from what they used, or if the same unseamed would be drastically different.
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