That's the bottom half of what appears to be a 'long' practice chanter. The top part is missing!

In fact at first I thought it was a pipe chanter until I noted the smaller counter-sunk fingering holes.

The two holes you refer to are tone holes.

So don't worry, you don't have to use your toes (or any other body part ) on them because you've run out of fingers!

They're there to help get the required tone.

But if you almost bought that, I'd respectively suggest that you ask someone who knows what they're doing because if you had bought that, you'd need to go and source/buy a top afterwards.

I'm not a fan of these long practice chanters, although there are many pipers who swear by them.

I far prefer the standard sized practice chanters.

You should be able to get a brand new blackwood practice chanter for around 80 GBP+ or thereabouts or a delrin/polypenco one for about 30 GBP+.

There are a number of used ones on ebay. Here's one:=

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bagpipes-Hen...item1c420cb2fb


Here's an advert on ebay for a basic, brand new, plastic one:-

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wallace-Plas...item1c41ba1849