These Blackwood Bagpipes are hand made to order by John in his small shop in Nova Scotia...so allow from three to seven weeks for delivery...sometimes a little less and sometimes a little more. As you can see from the choices below, you can customize your bagpipe set to your personal preferences. African Blackwood Drones and Chanter – Combed Imitation Ivory Projecting Mounts, beaded nickel ring caps, Beaded nickel ferrules, Imitation Ivory bushes, plain nickel slides. Complete with Bannatyne sealed pipe bag, E-zeedrone reeds, bag cover and cords. We also include a padded, nylon carrying case. Allow 8 to 12 weeks, more or less, for these made to order "pipes". No cancellations once the order is accepted.

Choose your bag color and cord color...the cords are made of SILK, not wool or nylon! The bag cover is Velveteen, some some inexpensive appearing cloth! We also include a set of Spanish Cane reeds...Then we add the invaluable guide: The BAGPIPE MAINTENANCE BOOK, for Free! You can choose from Blackwood mounts, Incredible Imitation Horn or Imitation Ivory mounts...Enter your selection below.

This is our Introductory Sale Price for a limited time only. Shipping throughout North America and Hawaii is on sale for a limited time at only $9.99.

Hand made for you, these Scottish Small Pipes from John Walsh are works of art. Mouthblown Smallpipe in the Key of D, full and well-balanced with bass, baritone and tenor drones.  All Small Pipes are not created equally. John Walsh Small Pipes are handcrafted in the John Walsh Bagpipes' workshop, precision tuned, and rigorously tested. Great care is taken and a vast amount of time is spent on production and assembly to ensure the highest possible quality and balanced tonal perfection of each individual instrumentWe include the famous Walsh Drone Adaptor which enables easy access to the drone reeds. Also includes a compact water trap in the blowpipe stock. The small pipes have a user friendly pipe chanter with slightly more spacing between the finger holes for ease of playing. Plastic parts include the drone reeds which are "built into" each drone individually. This D-2000 set also comes with a soft, zippered carrying case.

Allow 7 to 11 weeks, more or less, for these made to order "pipes". No cancellations once the order is accepted.

All Small Pipes are not created equally. John Walsh Small Pipes are handcrafted in the John Walsh Bagpipes' workshop, precision tuned, and rigorously tested. Great care is taken and a vast amount of time is spent on production and assembly to ensure the highest possible quality and balanced tonal perfection of each individual instrument. Hand made for you, these Scottish Small Pipes from John Walsh are works of art. Mouthblown Smallpipe in the Key of A, full and well-balanced with bass, baritone and tenor drones. Plastic Parts including the drone reeds which are “built into” each drone individually. We include the famous Walsh Drone Adaptor which enables easy access to the drone reeds. We also include a compact water trap in the blowpipe stock. We equip the small pipes with a user friendly pipe chanter with slightly more spacing between the finger holes for ease of playing. Allow 7 to 11 weeks, more or less, for these made to order "pipes". No cancellations once the order is accepted.

The John Walsh Shuttle Pipes are similar in style and shape to the Shuttle Pipe which dates as far back as 1695. The original Shuttle Pipe was bellows blown and had three open ended drones which were carried in one main stock with a plain open ended chanter made of ivory. The chanter was closed at some time during the eighteenth century and later keys were added to increase its note capacity. Mounting the drones in a single stock was typical of the Old Irish or German Pipes. The John Walsh Shuttle Pipes are hand crafted in Nova Scotia from quality materials to produce a uniquely sweet sound that is ideal for intimate performances where the Highland pipes would prove too overpowering.

The Shuttle Pipes are very affordable, require minimal upkeep and are generally “fun to play”. They are very melodious and certainly an ideal instrument for practicing, as well as performing, by all levels of Highland Bagpipe players. The Shuttle Pipe is crafted from rock maple, is mouthblown and uses practice chanter reeds. The Shuttle Pipes are in the Key of "A" and are mouth blown with the fingering being the same as the Great Highland Bagpipe. The wood used is rock maple wood , the pipe bag is made of synthetic material and the reeds are plastic. The drone which sits across your waist is cylindrical in shape and is comprised of a bass drone and tenor drone ( 2-Drone Version ). The 3-Drone version has the addition of a baritone drone. The drones are tuned by moving the sliders back and forward down the shuttle section and can be turned off or on at anytime. This THREE DRONE SHUTTLE has one bass and two tenor drones. Choose from a light finish to the wood or a dark finish. We include a synthetic pipe bag and your choice of bag color: NAVY, BLACK, HUNTER GREEN, RED OR BURGANDY.

Our introductory sale price of $799.91, plus shipping. Includes the BAGPIPE MAINTENANCE HANDBOOK. Oh yes, we include a padded, zippered nylon travel case too! Allow 7 to 11 weeks, more or less, for these made to order "pipes". No cancellations once the order is accepted.

Shuttle pipes are a variety of bagpipe which derive their name from the type of drones used to provide the harmony. Rather than the long tube-like drones which are used by Great Highland Bagpipes, the shuttle pipes use a shuttle drone. Shuttle drones consist of a series of winding tubes enclosed in a wooden chamber. Each shuttle drone tube terminates in a hollowed-out groove which is partially covered by a slide or 'shuttle' . This shuttle is moved back and forth over the groove, in effect lengthening or shortening the tube, thus flattening or sharpening the pitch.
Like all other bagpipes, shuttle pipes have a chanter which is used to play the melody. Shuttle pipes can be either mouth-blown or they may use a bellows to fill the bag.