Welcome, Daniel. The bagpipers will be along shortly. But I'd say if you want to play whistle, play whistle. If you want to play bagpipe, play bagpipe. Both whistle and many open-fingered bagpipes use the same basic simple system diatonic fingering, making it fairly easy to translate finger reflexes from one to the other. Breath skills vs. bag skills are a different story, of course.
Daniel Mahfooz wrote:I don't see what's so hard about customizing a bagpipe with a chanter that has the exact same fingering as the tin whistle.
Probably because you'd need to understand the acoustics of resonant pipes.
A tiny standard D whistle or a fairly large bore low D whistle would probably be a nightmare to reed. Even if you could reed a typical cylindrical whistle body, you're converting an open-end pipe to a closed-end pipe. Which means it will now overblow the twelfth and not the octave - if you can overblow it (over-pressure it) at all. So it won't behave like a whistle anyway. Notably, many bagpipes have only a fundamental compass of one octave or slightly more, and are not overblown.
An exception are the Irish uilleann pipes with a 2 octave range, and a set of open fingerings similar to whistle - which is partly why most uilleann pipers readily play the whistle as well. It sounds like that may be what you are interested in, at least a practice set (chanter/bag/bellows, no drones/regs). Why reinvent the wheel? With the caveat that I've heard naïve attempts to play uilleann pipes like a glorified whistle without understanding piping, and the results are not very pretty.
Another option might be a programmable MIDI wind controller with a whistle-like fingering setup. If you don't care if it sounds like a whistle or a bagpipe, you can make it sound like a glockenspiel.
I guess your query is confusing because: a) If you're already a bagpiper, then you already understand most of the above, and that fingering is only a part of it; b) If you're a whistle player, then you're radically underestimating what is involved in making a transition to any kind of bagpipe. Maybe more information about your music background and your goals would elicit better answers. Best of luck.
Thanks for all your answers maybe I was being a little too optimistic. But is there a way this could be possible in one form or another ? I mean how bad would a bagpipe with a tin whistle chanter sound, how hard would it be to learn? It can sound like Galican bagpipes or any form of bagpipe only without the drones etc. i'm just wondering if the sound can be changed to sound like a pipe and the skills transferred.
Yes, I agree. I experimented with quite a few designs and membrane materials too. And I do have a decent sounding combination at this point. I was actually surprised at how much I could get out of the membrane pipes - great fun, learned a bit and it was well worth the time and effort IMO.