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Thanks! I'll check them out. The more options the merrier...

Thank you for the information. I'm planning on a Daye chanter at this point. Probably the drones as well later on. It seems that the more answers I get, the more questions I have. What's a good source for bags and fittings for the bag? I see that NPU has various bags and blanks available. I do leath...

About cobbling together pipes my lord! I suppose in recent decades with the explosion of uilleann pipemaking and hundreds of newbies buying new sets it's different, but in the old days I saw many pipers playing sets that were cobbled together. The stuff in the Main Stock might match but so often wi...

I didn't know there was an uilleann piper's club in Botswana. Do they have a website? I haven't been able to find one.

Thanks, I'm already learning all I can. Plus, I plan on having more than a couple spare reeds as backup for whatever I end up getting. I'll probably try to learn how to make my own, as well...

I found a Daye chanter to work fairly well to start out on. The reed managed OK through the extreme humidity changes of a northeastern U.S. house in winter. This stability is the main reason I'm leaning strongly towards the Daye chanter. I live in Botswana, so weather will vary from cold and dry, t...

Thanks for the information! This is what I was looking for.

Just to clarify, I hopefully will be able to add drones to this set sometime in the distant future, so whichever bag and bellows I get ideally would be capable of handling them.

Hi all, Long time lurker, first time poster, as the saying goes. :) As you can tell by the title of the thread, I have a few questions related to buying uilleann pipes, as well as uilleann pipes in general. I’m planning to buy my first set of uilleann pipes, and I’m looking at a practise set. I’ve h...