So I got a Practice Chanter for my birthday last week, and I love it so much. I'm teaching myself so far, with hopes of finding a mentor soon, but for now it's okay. Anyway, I had been playing it rather heavily last weekend, and found the hemp joining the blowpiece had swollen a bit and seized the joint. So, I figured I should let it dry out, and not force the joint apart. It does get a bit chilly in my house during the day when no one is home, but I hadn't thought of this, and figured it wouldn't be enough to cause major swelling or anything.

Well, you can imagine my surprise this evening when I went to try and loosen the joint to find that the wooden section of the blowpiece had split, very cleanly, from the bottom by the joint to where the plastic tip joined with it! Obviously, it can't hold enough air pressure to make the reed sound, and the whole setup is only playable by playing the reed directly, which I am hesitant to do due to excess moisture.

Is there any way to fix the problem? It has split a good 1/16th of an inch, but I love my chanter, can't get another one, and don't want this bad incident to ruin my entire piping experience so early on.