I have wished that I lived near you for year's now. Online is beyond my ability. However, I greatly appreciate your talent and enthusiasm. A joy to watch.
@@MattWillisBagpiper Thank you. My main focus/responsibility lately is small pipes, practice chanters, blowpipes and stocks. Absolutely love it! Keep up the good work. 👍
I just picked up a set of McCallum poly mouth blown smallpipes. They are SOOOO easy to play (although they do have traditional style drone reeds and a cane reed in the blowpipe).
Nice sounding set of pipes, me personally I have plenty of pipes to play. A set of Naill bagpipes, Walsh Shuttle pipes and a one of a kind set of Walsh small pipes in the key of A, B flat and D.
I was actually thinking about purchase a new set of smallpipes recently, and these were on my short list. I was a little concerned about the tone of the chanter though. We purchased all Macallum practice chanters for our band, primarily because we would spend so much time trying to get similar tuning from the three or four pipers whose personal chanters were Gibsons. Most of the other pipers in my band have Walsh or Macallum smallpipes and we sometimes play together in session environments. Have you tried playing these against either Macallums' or Walshs'? If so, is the low G tuning distracting?
Great Video Matt The Pipes Sounded Great & I Like The Green Bag Cover The Green Bag Cover Is Something Similar To What I Have On My Shepherd Bagpipes. Matt I'm Thinking Of Using Cane Drone Reeds In My Maccallum Actyle Bagpipes. I Wanted To Know If Cane Drone Reeds Are Still Used. & Are Cane Drone Reeds Good Reeds I'm Looking For That Classic Sound.
Hi Matt, another great video. I know you’ve mentioned it before, what is the name of the tune you play as warm up on a lot of your videos ? Thanks again
One of your central Louisiana fans from the Killdares days here, what's your recommendation for a decent practice chanter! Dunno if I'll ever make it to the actual pipes, but I've been wanting to start for years and figure better late than never 😄
My favorite practice chanter currently on the market is actually another Gibson product I recently reviewed here: ruclips.net/video/5xCqbofx1Ig/видео.html
Good video Matt, thank you. Thinking about the comments re the drone reeds, would it be possible to substitute the supplied reeds with Eezeedrone smallpipe reeds (others are no doubt available) to overcome this problem?
It might be possible, but you’d likely have to try quite a few different sizes to find reeds that work. I suspect the purpose of these pipes was to have PC reeds for the drones…
I put them in mine and they sound great. No fit problems, and seem more stable. They are really hard to find though. I also ordered a cocobolo chanter directly from Gibson, it’s sounds beautiful.
just noticing. but you would think for $1150 and some small change these would come with a computer program to guide you thru the tuning. I think that's entirely reasonable, don't you?
Glad you're enjoying the videos! That said, no, I don't think a pipemaker supplying a free tuning app with a musical instrument is reasonable (don't know of any other instrument maker doing that). These pipemakers are fantastic at working wood, metal, cane, and leather... All those are very different skill sets than computer programming. Many of these guys tune by ear and not technology in any case. It takes a lot of time and effort to make a set of pipes; if anything, I think most all bagpipes are underpriced for the amount of time and materials that go into making a set. But that's just my opinion.
@@MattWillisBagpiper not sure about that. tons of kids coming in that can make complicated stuff and they also do the programming, but I have two kids in IT right now and they love it and one of my kids is an engineer (my daughter). In fact I love computers and making things (I'm an engineer too). in any case, I have tuners so it's no biggie. Hope you're doing well and I love your videos. They have a great vibe.
so why are you doing the tuning work of the manufacturer which they should be providing a program, app or whatever for? you should charge them for this. lol. I am sure they're not worried.
Why would a bagpipe come with an app? The environment greatly effects the tuning of the pipes, so the makers can’t just tune them on site and send them out perfectly tuned.
I have the EXACT SAME PROBLEM with my Walsh A 2000 chanter. There's no sound holes for low G and the low G is nearly low G SHARP!!!! It's the most ANNOYING thing in the world!!!!!!
I have wished that I lived near you for year's now. Online is beyond my ability. However, I greatly appreciate your talent and enthusiasm. A joy to watch.
Great review Matt! 👍 There is actually a pretty good chance that I made that particular set. Hope Daniel enjoys them.
That's pretty rad! Nice set here!
@@MattWillisBagpiper Thank you. My main focus/responsibility lately is small pipes, practice chanters, blowpipes and stocks. Absolutely love it! Keep up the good work. 👍
Lovely sounding pipes. Great unboxing and review as ever. They certainly reward your super precise playing too. Lovely.
Thank you kindly!
Very nice! I’m looking to get my practice chanter soon so I can start this amazing bagpipe journey. Thanks for being a great piper.
I just picked up a set of McCallum poly mouth blown smallpipes. They are SOOOO easy to play (although they do have traditional style drone reeds and a cane reed in the blowpipe).
Nice sounding set of pipes, me personally I have plenty of pipes to play. A set of Naill bagpipes, Walsh Shuttle pipes and a one of a kind set of Walsh small pipes in the key of A, B flat and D.
You are a man of many bagpipes, my friend!
A practice pipe... That's great! Awesome video.
Great sounding little set! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Hey, thanks for the video. What's the tune you play at 7:13?
My arrangement of "Hector the Hero"
Sounds good Matt!!
Thanks!
Many thanks!
I was actually thinking about purchase a new set of smallpipes recently, and these were on my short list. I was a little concerned about the tone of the chanter though. We purchased all Macallum practice chanters for our band, primarily because we would spend so much time trying to get similar tuning from the three or four pipers whose personal chanters were Gibsons.
Most of the other pipers in my band have Walsh or Macallum smallpipes and we sometimes play together in session environments. Have you tried playing these against either Macallums' or Walshs'? If so, is the low G tuning distracting?
love your videos. keep on making them please
More to come!
@@MattWillisBagpiper excellent
Thank you for the very interesting video! Marlon
Love from India 🇮🇳😊
They look and sound really nice! Do they have a moisture trap system like the McCallum Folk pipes?
They do not, nor do they really need one as all the reeds are plastic.
Great Video Matt The Pipes Sounded Great & I Like The Green Bag Cover The Green Bag Cover Is Something Similar To What I Have On My Shepherd Bagpipes. Matt I'm Thinking Of Using Cane Drone Reeds In My Maccallum Actyle Bagpipes. I Wanted To Know If Cane Drone Reeds Are Still Used. & Are Cane Drone Reeds Good Reeds I'm Looking For That Classic Sound.
You'd likely have to fashion your own cane reeds should you want to go that direction.
@@MattWillisBagpiper Thank You Matt 🙂🙂🙂🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️
Fabulous.
Hi Matt, another great video. I know you’ve mentioned it before, what is the name of the tune you play as warm up on a lot of your videos ?
Thanks again
If it was slow, possibly "Hector the Hero" and lately the quicker ones are either "Battle of Waterloo" of "Highland Wedding (Hornpipe)"
@@MattWillisBagpiper thanks for the quick reply Matt!
One of your central Louisiana fans from the Killdares days here, what's your recommendation for a decent practice chanter!
Dunno if I'll ever make it to the actual pipes, but I've been wanting to start for years and figure better late than never 😄
My favorite practice chanter currently on the market is actually another Gibson product I recently reviewed here: ruclips.net/video/5xCqbofx1Ig/видео.html
Good video Matt, thank you. Thinking about the comments re the drone reeds, would it be possible to substitute the supplied reeds with Eezeedrone smallpipe reeds (others are no doubt available) to overcome this problem?
It might be possible, but you’d likely have to try quite a few different sizes to find reeds that work. I suspect the purpose of these pipes was to have PC reeds for the drones…
I put them in mine and they sound great. No fit problems, and seem more stable. They are really hard to find though. I also ordered a cocobolo chanter directly from Gibson, it’s sounds beautiful.
I have an idea should like make the sounds of other instruments
how much are your lessons? in Chicago, violin lessons are $80 to $100 per hour!
Currently lessons are $60 per 30 minutes.
@@MattWillisBagpiper that's about right. $120 per hour. and you're very skilled so that makes sense to me.
just noticing. but you would think for $1150 and some small change these would come with a computer program to guide you thru the tuning. I think that's entirely reasonable, don't you?
Glad you're enjoying the videos! That said, no, I don't think a pipemaker supplying a free tuning app with a musical instrument is reasonable (don't know of any other instrument maker doing that). These pipemakers are fantastic at working wood, metal, cane, and leather... All those are very different skill sets than computer programming. Many of these guys tune by ear and not technology in any case.
It takes a lot of time and effort to make a set of pipes; if anything, I think most all bagpipes are underpriced for the amount of time and materials that go into making a set. But that's just my opinion.
@@MattWillisBagpiper not sure about that. tons of kids coming in that can make complicated stuff and they also do the programming, but I have two kids in IT right now and they love it and one of my kids is an engineer (my daughter). In fact I love computers and making things (I'm an engineer too). in any case, I have tuners so it's no biggie. Hope you're doing well and I love your videos. They have a great vibe.
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so why are you doing the tuning work of the manufacturer which they should be providing a program, app or whatever for? you should charge them for this. lol. I am sure they're not worried.
Why would a bagpipe come with an app? The environment greatly effects the tuning of the pipes, so the makers can’t just tune them on site and send them out perfectly tuned.
@@MattWillisBagpiper I would image you tune them at set up and then as needed like a violin. The app just tells you the note, nothing else
How much did this bagpipe cost?
You can look it up at Henderson Imports... I did not purchase this myself.
@@MattWillisBagpiper if you say so
I have the EXACT SAME PROBLEM with my Walsh A 2000 chanter. There's no sound holes for low G and the low G is nearly low G SHARP!!!! It's the most ANNOYING thing in the world!!!!!!
Just landed in Austin from Toronto; Canada. Do you live in Austin Matt?
I'm up in the Dallas area.
@@MattWillisBagpiper i thought so lol. Thanks for the reply. Next time when we land in DFW or Love Field.