An example of a true prodigy!

[KD Burke]

There is a young man in Scotland by the name of Callum Armstrong. He plays several varieties of pipes including, if I'm not mistaken, GHB. He has a remarkable, possibly unique, instrument which was made by Julian Goodacre. This particular instrument is essentially a set of bellows-blown smallpipes, but the chanter has a double bore!

Unlike most "double chanter" instruments where the high hand plays one chanter and the low hand plays the other, Mr. Armstrong's chanter has all the available notes on BOTH bores. He plays harmonies by covering one, but not both, holes for a particular note.

Here he is playing a slow air. You can clearly see the very particular fingerwork required to play the harmonies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFQAgK-eYq0

Another, this time a jig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE_2T8lMrbU


Obviously this young man has a great deal of talent! I am awestruck! A single chanter is more than sufficient challenge for me!

[Profane James]

Nice! I need a close look at that chanter..

http://www.callumarmstrong.co.uk/about-me-2

[OC Richard]

Yes that's mind-boggling.

And I'm used to playing doublepipes!

Mine, as you say, have one hand for each chanter, and the learning curve isn't all that steep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4lw8-3Jf9w