Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian View Post
I have a slightly different set of "smallpipes" of similar manufacture and I'm still screwing around trying to get them playable...and these were acquired with the sole intention of having something to play around with: no ambitions or delusions that I'll ever play the GHb's. Nothing on them is straight.

Again, I'm not a piper but maybe some of the fellas who are could render an opinion on these:

http://www.hotpipes.com/kpipe.html

...which are a little bit more than the ones that you asked about but seem to be more "true" to the GHB.

Best

AA
I suppose it all gets down to what you're trying to achieve. These Kitchen pipes are probably the least expensive way I have seen to have a set of smallpipes and a decent practice chanter to boot. What they sound like, I don't know. FWIW, I echo the positive comment above about the Walsh shuttlepipes, as I have a set of those also.

If you want to play the GHB, then going the traditional route is the only way. If you want to add on a smallpipe, a mouthblown variety is an easy transiton from there. If you want to play smallpipes, jumping in with a bellows model is probably the way to go. I just don't know enough about those "medieval pipes" to know how that figures into this equation.