Where's your Bagpipes?

[Prester John]

Go with a used set of Dunbar P-1s.

My son has them (he's a much better piper than I, at age 13), and I'm picking up my set of polypenco pipes tonight.

PiobBear's comments above seem dead on regarding pakistani made pipes.

Perhaps, in order to help you make up your mind, you could listen to the differences via videos of bands on YouTube. I have seen and heard what were clearly ****-pipes played by bands in the Middle East (I think Jerusalem?) from there.

All in all, it is the sound you are after, and there are many different kinds of bagpipes, not all Great Highland Pipes.

Hey, I'm still new to the piping game, so that's just my two cents.

[Kiltedfirepiper]

Perhaps, in order to help you make up your mind, you could listen to the differences via videos of bands on YouTube. I have seen and heard what were clearly ****-pipes played by bands in the Middle East (I think Jerusalem?) from there.

there is a DVD series called instrument of war, and they have the Jordan pipe band playing on there.....yes they DO sound different, BUT thats because they TUNE their pipes different( to me they sounded REALLY flat)...I didnt really care for where they tuned to, but to each thier own.... also it didnt sound like they tuned to each other either. but that could have been due to the fact that it wasnt possible to tune to each other


I started with a pakistani set...for the $$ I spent on getting it playable ( mind you I DID get it playable) I could have bought a good set of ABW's
$475 for the pipes, + another 300 for bag, chanter, reeds, ect....as they say hindsight is 20/20