Border Pipes

Also sometimes called Lowland or Reel Pipes, Border Pipes have been increasing in popularity with Scottish pipers looking to play in pubs and sessions with other musicians. Our Border Pipes have a nice easy pressure, and are slightly louder than uilleann pipe volume, but not too loud for playing with fiddles. Along with being tuned in A-440, the Border chanter's ability to "cross-finger" notes including high G#, Fnat, E flat and Cnat make it ideal for folk band work.

Our Border chanter is driven by a cane reed designed to bring out it's crisp tone. Drone configuration is typically Alto, Tenor, Bass, but can be anything else you might require. Drones can be set up with cane or synthetic reeds.

The chanter top uses a split stock with reed protection standard on all sets. This makes storing the set away easier, since the chanter can be removed from the bag without damaging the reed. It also makes it possible to plug the Border chanter in with our Smallpipes, which is handy if travelling with just one set.

And the reverse, playing a Smallpipe chanter with Border Drones is also becoming more popular, which has now given rise to the Four Drone Border Pipe Set (to allow both A and D Smallpipe chanters to play with Border Drones).