For personal performances, I play a Naill blackwood with a McPhee reed. It's got good tone and balances well with the drones (Crisler rosewoods w/ Kinnaird reeds). It also required very little tape to tune (just a little on the F).

For band, I think it's a McCallum Mark I (poly) w/ a Warnock broad. A little bolder/brassier tone (for band purposes it works well).