Piping Progression

[SteveB]

medic 78,
Are you studying the pipes? It is a great journey and a lot of fun.
Slainte

[wvpiper]

The chanter hole spacing is identical to my Dunbar Long practice chanter,

It should, that's a long practice chanter in the kitchen pipes. Take the mouthpiece out, and the chanter out, and put them together and you have a second chanter.

medic 78,
Are you studying the pipes? It is a great journey and a lot of fun.
Slainte

Fun-that's debatable sometimes, torture, agony, depressing but in the end worth it.
I went straight from the chanter to the big pipes with corked drones, then opened one, two then three, etc.
I'm heading to a pipe clinic for a week later this summer. I'm really looking forward to it, as I know there's tons of info/technique that I don't know.

Good luck with the practice pipes. I would like to get a set of Scottish smallpipes, probably bellows blown in a year or two.