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This guy makes a plastic pibgorn in your price range. I’’ve gone back and forth for years about getting one. http://pibgorn.co.uk/instruments-offerynnau Ooh, thank you! That may be exactly what I'm looking for. Having re-examined my finances, I decided now is not the time to buy an instrument, but ...

Clarineau? Yet another instrument name I never heard of! Do they come in plastic, though? Googling "clarineau" only leads to wooden instruments, on the first few pages of results, anyway. Googling "plastic clarineau" brings up tons of plastic clarin ets , even when I tell Google...

So many possibilities! Adding Venova to the list. I spoke to my Highland pipe-playing friend, who said he has an extra practice chanter to lend me. He also mentioned that his wife had bought, and then never done anything with, a "backpacking saxophone", which I'll also try. I don't know th...

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This is about the appearance of the pipes, not the sound: I once heard someone say uilleann pipes looked "like an antique vacuum cleaner."

[That's "hoover" for you across the pond.]

Have you read over this thread from a few years ago? Advice on getting a Shawm or Rauschpfeife or similar, please Thank you, that was helpful. I did skim over that thread before posting, but started a new thread because I wanted to ask specifically about plastic instruments and transitioning from r...

How about a bawu? From Wikipedia: The bawu (simplified Chinese: 巴乌; traditional Chinese: 巴烏; pinyin: bāwū; also ba wu) is a Chinese wind instrument.[1] Although shaped like a flute, it is actually a free reed instrument, with a single metal reed. It is played in a transverse (horizontal) manner. It...

Greetings, good people. :) Here's my situation: I've been playing recorder since I was 10. I'm now 60. I'm not a professional-level player, but I'm pretty damn competent. I've played folky stuff by ear and I've played off sheet music in a early-music consorts. I love the sound of shawms, bombards, c...