I can make a recommendation. Find yourself a set of piper's choice brand kitchen pipes. It's a practice chanter that plugs into a set of small pipes. You can get one from hotpipes with a dunbar chanter or a set with a standard practice chanter from musicians friend.

That's what I started with. I've been taking lessons for 6 months now and I'm just recently been plugging the chanter into the bag. It's a not too expensive instrument. The practice chanter is good and easy to get a clean sound with, the reeds are cheap and readily available.

If you don't want a set of kitchen pipes that's fine, but seriously hold off on the pipes for now. All you'll need for awhile is a good practice chanter.

-Minnow