There has been a resurgence of British doublepipes going on for some years, mostly centred around reviving the extinct Cornish pipes.

There are a number of church carvings around Cornwall showing pipers playing double-chantered pipes, dating to the Renaissance period. This has led to the inference that these doublepipes where perhaps associated specifically with Cornwall in some way.

So a number of makers have been making these things, which of course are largely hypothetical in their details, as no actual instruments survive.

I used to own a set of Julian Goodacre's Cornish Doublepipes. His are based on the famous Alternun Church pew end carving, showing a musician in full Renaissance livery playing a set with two very long cylindrical chanters of unequal length. Other Cornish carvings show more normal-sized chanters of equal length, evidently sllightly conical. These Cornish pipes seem to always have a single drone, up on the shoulder.

But carvings of double-chanter pipes exist all over England, and also in Scotland, showing that these things were once widespread.

What I'm doing different is getting a set going which uses ordinary Scottish fingering, simply for my own convenience.