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Yuri Terenyi, a pipe maker Down Under, made the special double stock, and blowpipe. A bagmaker friend of his made the custom bag. Next I would like to have made special chanters in wood, having the same hole configuation that I've created in these Gibson practice chanters.

That's what's cool about this sort of bagpipe, the "virtual drone". I can play any tune using normal Scottish fingering and one chanter or the other is always playing Low A, a result of the GHB's partially closed fingering system. But then at will I can play in two-part harmony, though the notes ...

I've only heard the two parts. Kurt, could you link to a video showing somebody playing the extra parts? Thanks!

Of the Low Ds I played there, the MK is the most air-efficient, that is, longer phrases can be played on a single breath. The Burke is the least air-efficient, and breaths need to be taken nearly twice as often on it.

Sorry no list of variations for the second part... I tend to play the second part fairly straightforwardly... just little things like bending high Fnat versus playing a G-F#-E triplet there, in one section. It's the opening phrase of the first part that really lends itself to variation, in my opi...

My go-to whistle is the MK. High A and high B are a bit loud if playing at a smallish session. For me the nicest-sounding note on the MK is E near the bottom of the 2nd octave- it's amazing. So much colour and grit to it. But the entire gamut has a wonderful tone, which combined with its great vo...

I don't know what would constitute "correct". Most of the Irish traditional players I heard when I was learning back in the 70s did finger vibrato. Some would augment finger vibrato with throat vibrato on certain notes such as D. I can't recall any traditional Irish guys at that time doing a wide...

About the key of those chanters, at the time I made these videos they weren't really tuned to anything except each other. I think they're somewhat flat of B-flat, which is very common for "long" practice chanters.

I recently tuned these chanter up to Concert B-flat so that I can play along with...