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Bagpipes - Help Please!!

  • 10-01-2014 10:12pm
    #1
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭


    Odd one here.

    I play a few instruments - keyboard, clarinet, trumpet, guitar, violin so I'm no stranger to music.

    Today I was given a set of bagpipes. Mad yokes.

    It's a really cheap bagpipe set but they work. The chanter pipe is missing. I blow in and the drone pipes work.

    Myself and a few lads have a Robert Burns themed night set for 25th Jan and I'd like to learn at least one tune on the pipes but I've a problem - I'm missing the chanter pipe. I can't even identify the make of the pipe set.

    I need a replacement chanter. Help please!!
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  • #2
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭Mech1


    Stick your tin whistle in the hole, how bad can it be?


  • #3
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Mech1 wrote: »
    Stick your tin whistle in the hole, how bad can it be?

    I've no idea but I'd imagine a tin whistle won't be in the correct key even if it did fit.

    But you're probably taking the p1ss, Pat :D
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  • #4
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭Mech1


    :D


  • #5
    gobnaitolunacy
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    If you got Scots at this Burns Night, they will not be impressed, or anyone with an idea of music for that matter.
    Probably a dirt cheap Pakistani set you got there (not a racial slur, they do make pipes there...a hangover from British India...but they are unbelieveably crap)

    Back OT, I'd try ebay.


  • #6
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Thanks, gobnait. I'd say they are a very cheap set of pipes and not worth repairing. It'd be cheaper to get a new cheap set.

    Yeah, no chance of getting even one tune sorted for the 25th from what I've read. No Scots present but I don't want to burst my own ear drums either!!
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  • #7
    slavetothegrind
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    Forum to be renamed the instruments people like to hear forum

    :P


  • #8
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    slavetothegrind wrote: »
    Forum to be renamed the instruments people like to hear played properly forum

    :P

    FYP


  • #9
    Baralis1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭Baralis1


    Any make of the chanter will fit. You just add hemp or plumbers tape to make it air tight. You'll need to learn first however on a practice chanter. You might just have learned a simple tune in two weeks with intensive practice. (I realise I'm 4 months late!) Btw, if the pipes aren't made by one of the recognised pipe makers, then they are only good for lighting the fire. That's not snobbery by the way, it's the truth. Nothing worse on the ears than a bad sounding set of pipes!


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