buying a chanter kit

[drobin]

Yes and no, though mostly the latter....Horns would be like blowing into a small straw and bagpipes would be like blowing into a piece of PVC pipe, there's more cubic feet per minute involved. Plus the embouchure is very different, your lips need to build stamina too.


Andrew

Depends, ever play tube? At this monmet I'm only able to base my experince and statment on playing a Practice Chanter. With that in mind; my experince is the PC has far more resistance than my Horn, reminds me of my time in University when I played the Oboe for a week. I reserve the right to totally change my mind once I get to the full pipes. No matter what the musical background of the student; if they have or are incorperating breathing exercises (I'm a big fan of the 'breathing gym' myself) there should be a much smaller adjustment time.

A bit off topic; I was talking to Jay Attwood about resistance and cirucular breathing. It was amusing as during the conversation it came up that I can only circular breath when I'm on the PC but Jay said that was way too much back pressure for him.

[wgority]

Depends, ever play tube? At this monmet I'm only able to base my experince and statment on playing a Practice Chanter. With that in mind; my experince is the PC has far more resistance than my Horn, reminds me of my time in University when I played the Oboe for a week. I reserve the right to totally change my mind once I get to the full pipes. No matter what the musical background of the student; if they have or are incorperating breathing exercises (I'm a big fan of the 'breathing gym' myself) there should be a much smaller adjustment time.

I would suggest you achieve Andy's level of skill on pipes before you offer this suggestion.

[drobin]

I would suggest you achieve Andy's level of skill on pipes before you offer this suggestion.

[just4fun63]

Very happy with my Dunbar 2000. "O" rings are great. Call Oliver at hotpipes.com

(707) 937-1626 between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. Pacific Coast time (GMT minus 7 - 8 hours), seven days per week.

He will get you what you need

[AndrewLenzJr]

Darren, not to worry, no offense taken. But yes, talk to me AFTER you've moved to the full set of pipes!


Waaaaaay different animal to a practice chanter. With a practice chanter, you can blow and blow and blow and only need to take a breath because you've run out of oxygen, not air in your lungs. With pipes, you blow, breathe, blow, breathe, blow, you get a headache, spots swim before your eyes and you get dizzy . . . but it gets easier over the course of months.


Though you are right about Tuba, I haven't played it. I didn't (and won't) rule out it maybe helping but pipes are pretty different.

Andrew