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🎬 Class ReplayAll LevelsFree Preview📅 Posted November 12, 2025· 1h 10m

Set Up Your Bagpipes Like a Pro (Free Online Class)

The Short Version

Your pipes have to fit you before anything else can work. Only two parts of the bagpipe are sized to the player, the bag and the blowpipe. Get a bag small enough to sit high under your arm and a blowpipe short enough to keep your head and forearms in a neutral position.
Hard to play and taking too much air are two different problems. Too much pressure points at the chanter reed. Too much air points at a leak or at drone reeds that are hogging air. Work out which one you have before you start changing things.
A drone reed that is happy in the drone gives you two tones. Blow up through the pressure and you should hear it click into a second, more focused tone. One tone, or a loud second tone, means an unstable drone that eats air and will never tune properly.
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Set Up Your Bagpipes Like a Pro (Free Online Class)
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