Blu, hope you do better than I did with chanters...

Got one for Christmas a couple years ago. Ladyfriend ordered it out of a Scottish stuff catalog. I could only make it squeak occasionally. Took it down to Flagstaff to Thompson's bagpipe place there. Was gonna buy a "better" one. He tried it and made it sing.

Like you say, seems to have more to do with the huffer and puffer than anything else. Hope you get a great one and play it with joy.

Ron