Bagpiping anyone?

**AlexMDN** · 16th March 08, 12:30 PM

I came across this practice chanters on ebay for from 0.99 to $17. And told myself - what-a-heck and placed a bid on one. So if anyone interested here's link to ebay shop that sales em http://stores.ebay.ca/thinkoutsidethetoybox

PS. My wife will probably kill me for making crappy sounds for the naxt couple of months or may be years, so there's a chance that you'll never hear from me again.

**sharpdressedscot** · 16th March 08, 02:44 PM

I bet they're bad quality, but you never know.

**Jack Daw** · 16th March 08, 02:49 PM

No practice chanter sounds good to my ear. It's intention must be to prepare my ears for my own piping. My chanter actually is in tune with PM Donald MacLeod as I pipe (chant?) along with his tutorials, but my pipe instructor cringes sometimes at the noise my chanter makes.

**JS Sanders** · 16th March 08, 03:40 PM

At those prices the best you can hope for is kindling.

Slainte,
steve

**Nick the DSM** · 16th March 08, 04:21 PM

if your looking for something to last then spend some money. 60-70 is usually a good price.

**Iain Robb** · 17th March 08, 04:15 AM

You may wish to check with your local pipe bands before you go any farther. Our local band, Rosie O'Grady's Highlanders in Orlando, Florida, offers free piping and drumming lessons if you agree to play with the band when you gain proficiency. It's a great deal -- that's how my oldest learned swing tenor and my second- and third-oldest learned the pipes.

**BEEDEE** · 17th March 08, 07:02 AM

Good luck. Cocus and rosewood usually indicate chanters of Pakistani origin, and not very good tone. They are often not full size (i.e. the same size as a bagpipe chanter) so will cause some fingering problems later on if you go that far.

If you are serious about the pies, find and instructor, either private lessons or with a pipe band.

Brian

**dowofbuchanan** · 17th March 08, 12:55 PM

id love to learn and i think i live in a city with a few good pipe bands ... kansas city has a huge st pats parade and there were a couple different pipe bands there ... we got the dublin fire brigade here today
i have a question for any pipers ... how can there be an irish pipe marching band .. irish or uillean abc? pipes are sit down with bellows ... they were playing highland pipes

**Panache** · 17th March 08, 01:02 PM

I've moved this thread to our Celtic Musicians Forum where more of our Pipers are likely to see it.

Cheers

Jamie

**Panache** · 17th March 08, 01:04 PM

Alex,

An X Marker and a friend of mine Andrew Lenz has a site all about taking up piping as an adult. It might be a useful one to take a look at:

http://www.bagpipejourney.com/

Cheers

Jamie