Quote Originally Posted by ohiopiper View Post
Yep. They eliminate a drone to take an item out of the equation for tuning. It makes X less reeds and drones that can cause a problem. They also go through the charade of tuning them because in many judged events you will be DQ'd for not playing all three drones.
That, and if one piper forgot to put the little plug inside you'd have the potential for one wicked-out-of-tune drone if you didn't check them all.



We play with all of ours ('cause the pipe major says so...)