The page you requested cannot be found! The page you requested cannot be found. Standard Size Practice Chanter Practice Chanter Rosewood with Reed Bagpipe Drone Stock Stoppers - 5 Pack Bagpipe Drone Top Stoppers - 3 Pack Bagpipe Chanter Stock Cover - Moisture Control click here to recover it. Please enter the email address that you used during registration:Sound clips of our bagpipes being played are avaliable on the Sounds page of this website. Border pipes are bellows blown, have three drones in a common stock, and a conical bore chanter. They keep a lot of the characteristic vibrant tone of the Highland pipes, but at a lower volume. Although they are not as well known as the Highland pipes, they have a history on both sides of the Border and in the Scottish Lowlands which goes back some 500 years. of these pipes has increased over the last dozen years or so, as the standard of the pipes available has improved, and a growing number of

pipers have appreciated their particular musical qualities. pipes are also sometimes called Scottish Lowland pipes, Lowland pipes, Reel pipes, or Half Longs.One way in which the Border pipes are more versatile than the Highland pipes or the Scottish smallpipes, is that in addition to the standard scale, the chanters can give accurately pitched cross fingered accidentals. After many years work we developed, in the early 1990's, a border pipe chanter which was fully chromatic by cross fingering, giving a good minor third, minor sixth, major seventh, sharp fourth, and minor second, without altering the standard fingering of the normal pipe scale. Our chanters have gained a reputation for the accuracy of the pitch of their accidental notes. Border pipes make excellent solo instruments. Their tone, volume, and the fact that they are tuned to A 440 and do not sharpen during playing, also makes them ideal for playing with other instruments.

volume of most Border pipes is a perfect match for two fiddles but is certainly not too loud for one. These factors are making them now the Scottish pipes of choice for playing in traditional music groups, andWe aim to offer our standard border pipes for delivery within 3 months. The pictures here illustrate the variety ofparrot ar drone schweiz different specifications and different materials available. ar drone 2 altitude maximaleSee Materials for details of the different woods we use. ar drone flight recorder cenaLeft - Fully mounted mopane/boxwood with gold plated ferrules and drone sleeves.best drone reeds for gibson bagpipes

Right - Standard blackwood with art. Ivory ferrules on drones and nickel plated ferrules on stocks.Left - Fully mounted blackwood/bloodwood with nickel plated ferrules and drone sleeves.Right - Fully mounted blackwood/boxwood with gold plated ferrules and drone sleeves.Left - Fully mounted mopane/boxwood gold plated ferrules no drone sleeves.parrot ar drone custom hullRight - Fully mounted blackwood/bloodwood nickel plated ferrules no drone sleeves.ar drone flight recorder kopenApart from accurate tuning, the things we consider most important to achieve in making good border pipes are:The key of A is by far the most popular for Border pipes, which suits other players of traditional music, particularly those playing ScottishBorder pipes in Bb are also available. The standard sets have two tenor drones and a bass drone, a combination which has proved

itself with Highland pipes. Also available is our bass, baritone, tenor combination, and if desired bass tenor alto. have made our reputation over the years particularly as makers of top quality border pipes before any other pipes or instruments. pipes are not the same musical instrument that they were 25 years ago when I first became interested in them, or 20 years ago when I made myAt that time the pipes available were fickle, unstable, and varied in tone and pitch. It is probable that the Border pipes played by the masters of yore (Geordie Syme etc) were good instruments, but after many hours research into old chanters in Edinburgh's Reid museum and elsewhere it was clear that there was no good standardOur border pipes are the result of 20 years continuous research border pipe chanters have a reputation for tone quality, stability and the accuracy of their cross fingered notes, and as a result we sell many on their own, generally to be fitted to existing sets of pipes.

Often players of smallpipes who want a louder chanter for playing in sessions fit them in their smallpipes for particular tunes. smallpipe drones don't support the border pipe chanter as well as border pipe drones, but where other instruments are playing this is notWe can fit split stocks so the reeds on both the chanters are protected when not in use. We will match our chanter to the internal and external diameter of your chanter stock, unless the stock has a very narrow bore (under 5/8th inch 15.8mm) in which case please enquire regarding a solution for this problem. can be made to suit your requirements are usually available with little accepted wisdom in the Scottish bellows pipes market in the last twenty years has been that while the baritone drone works well with smallpipes it does not suit the border pipes. The demise of the Northumbrian "Half Longs" and the fifth harmonic being a G# and thus potentially clashing with the G note on the chanter are two possible reasons for this

However beliefs are there to be challenged so we did! years ago we made a set of border pipes for fine German piper Thomas Zoeller - included a baritone drone at his request - and many peopleHowever we did not pursue it at that time and have only offered this option recently after further development. certaily does work well if the baritone is kept at a moderate volume, and is designed to supress the unwanted harmonics as far as possible. We can fit a stop tap so the baritone can be isolated from the bass andApart from the warm sound when playing in A the baritone gives a further option of playing (with or without the bass) in D or E (major or minor) with the support of a tonic note on theThe picture below shows the bottom of a baritone drone featuring the stop tap. do offer this option and have made bass tenor alto sets on request inA set I once had made by John Addison in 1982 had thisOther pipemakers have been keen on the option of the alto