The Guide to Buying BagpipesIt's the big day! You rush down the stairs to see that you've got a large package in front of your door. How exciting! You quickly take the package to your living room, rip it to shreds to discover the set of pipes that you've been waiting for. You quickly set them up only to be slightly disheartened by the way they sound. You decide you've had enough for the day and you put them back in their case and wait until tomorrow before you mess around with them some more.
The first thing you remember the next day is how you you weren't lucky yesterday. Better try them again! This time as you pull them out and blow them up, you're starting to feel very light-headed. You can feel your face turning hot-pink from all of the blowing you were doing... oh no... that can only mean one thing - the bag isn't holding air! Everyone knows that a bagpipe's main component is the bag, and if that's not working then you can't really "bag-pipe," can you?
The purpose of me writing this is so that you don't have to have any of that happen to you. There are plenty of better things to do than to waste your time with a bagpipe that doesn't play well if at all.
In this guide I promise to give you the full run-down on the
who, what, where, when and
how I know about buying/obtaining bagpipes from
which makers to avoid to making sure you know about all of
the useful little and usually unseen accessories that pipers are using these days.
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