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Small pipes, border pipes, half-longs. What do you play and why?
You're shitting me?
The best quality you can get ,but practice on a chanter first,find local pipe band,to try a few out.
Irish pipes use a bellows instead of a bag as quite hard to inflate the bag.
And a remote shed or a long garden if the wife does not support your enthusiasm,why do you think you always see pipers on remote hills.
Try electric pipes for learning. You can adjust them to play all the sounds and with headphones no-one need ever know.
Or stood next to the A14 in deepest Suffolk. I thought I'd seen a ghost at first.*
I have no idea at pipes. But someone I know apparently makes some great ones... http://www.fadenpipes.uk Andy rides bikes too!
*if they existed
Remember the definition of a gentleman - someone who [i]can[/i] play the bagpipes, but doesn't.
ahhhh...the instrument they couldn't think of a name for...
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I read 'recommend me some baggies'. I was going to say Endura. Bearnecessities post confused me then I retread it.
There's also Northumbrian pipes, similar to Ulleian pipes with the pumping done by the arm, Breton pipes are also similar, I think, and personally I find all three more pleasing to the ear than Scottish bagpipes, although those do have a rather stirring quality played well.
Katherine Tickell OBE is an outstanding player of Northumbrian pipes, and worth a study.
[edit], just reread the OP, and border/small pipes are mentioned, I didn't connect the names to Northumbrian pipes.
As you were.
Where are you based?
I read 'recommend me some baggies
gavinpearce got it 😀
Actually we do have a set of Northumbrian Smallpipes in the household.
My pal in SA is an honorary Scot who plays guitar and sings at parties, weddings, pubs and so on. At the end of each set he pulls out a set of Scottish pipes and plays a few reels, last time I saw him was at an open pub garden where there were several dogs with their owners. The second the pipes started all the dogs pinned their ears down, cringed and headed for the exits, it was comical.
No clue, but Airfix by Jarlath Henderson and the other one is an album well worth picking up. Ulliean (or Northumbrian?) and Irish pipes.
Edit: Ross Ainslee.