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🎥 Video LessonIntermediateFree Preview📅 Posted March 13, 2026· 11m

Is Your Pipe Chanter Holding You Back? Try The Infinity Chanter: Smaller Holes, Cleaner Execution

The Short Version

Sloppy fingerwork is often the chanter's fault, not yours. Over the past few decades pipe chanter holes have grown up to 40% larger than they need to be for the sound they produce, making full coverage much harder, especially on the lowest notes.
The Infinity Chanter was built specifically to solve that trade-off. Made by R.G. Hardie & Company, it has holes up to 40% smaller with tighter spacing, and the Blackwood version has every hole edge smoothly sanded so fingers seal naturally without stretching.
Smaller holes did not mean a smaller sound. I report the Infinity Chanter is chirp-proof even during fast top-hand-to-bottom-hand transitions, and it comes in Blackwood, Poly, and a Concert B-flat version for playing with other instruments.
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Is Your Pipe Chanter Holding You Back? Try The Infinity Chanter: Smaller Holes, Cleaner Execution
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02:04fast Cold weather, worse and make it fingerwork nerves,🔒
02:52holes a smaller with for search My chanter🔒
03:32R.G. Alastair and Hardie's Dunn breakthrough design🔒
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04:36smoother edges What feel smaller holes and like🔒
05:12top-hand-to-bottom-hand Chirp-proof fast transitions through🔒
05:48Three and B-flat Blackwood, versions: Poly, Concert🔒
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08:01execution, changes cold, confidence switch: when What you🔒
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