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Garvie Bellows Blown Border PipesGarvie Bellows Blown Border Pipes

£1,500.00
Product Code: BAGPIPES126
Border pipes are bellows blown, have three drones in a common stock, and a conical bore chanter. They keep a lot of the characteristic vibrant tone of the Highland pipes, but at a lower volume. Border pipes are also sometimes called Scottish Lowland pipes, Lowland pipes, Reel pipes, or Half Longs. One way in which the Border pipes are more versatile than the Highland pipes or the Scottish smallpipes, is that in addition to the standard scale, the chanters can give accurately pitched cross fingered accidentals. After many years work we developed, in the early 1990's, a border pipe chanter which was fully chromatic by cross fingering, giving a good minor third, minor sixth, major seventh, sharp fourth, and minor second, without altering the standard fingering of the normal pipe scale. These are typically made from Mopane and mounted with boxwood.
This set are in the key of A and are hand-made in Edinburgh by Nigel Richards.