Check out this set of practice pipes…
Anyone have any experience with these?
run, run away, run away as fast as you can!!!
Look to the last issue of the Piper’s Review for a story on these.
Do you know why this man is smiling??
anima…can you give me a link to that review?
Thanks!
Dan
I don’think it’s posted online but if you email me privately I can send it to you
Tony…because it’s not anything like the manequin he actually ordered, but he thinks he’s gonna like it anyway? 
He’s thinking to himself: these things sound terrible, but I love the vibration!!
God help us all !!
He’s smiling because he’s making money off some bizzare hybrid UP/GHB set that sounds like a duck being attacked by a chicken.
Dionys
Be very skeptical about “bargain” uilleann pipes.
There are very few if any bargains.
I tried a set like these at the Piping Championship in Glasgow this summer.They still need developing and the reed did not achieve the second octave very well.
Slan go foill
Liam
Uilliam,
The ad states it’s over four years in development and plays both octaves.
I doubt this product will undergo any future design changes or improvements.
Unfortunately, people will continue to buy them as is, thinking it’s a low cost solution to a traditional practice set.
anyone who reads this board almost by definition is someone who does their research. they would know that this set is not the way to go. most of the market for stuff like this is impulse buyers.
the other day a guy knocks on my door- was drawn to the sound of my SSP and identified himself as a “fellow bagpiper”. turns out he impulse bought a pakistani set of GHB (at a Highland Games) and has sort of figured them out. must of had deaf neighbors to get away with that. did not know that there was such a thing as a practice chanter. did not know that there were good tutors available.
the purveyor of the set may end up doing alot better financially than many of our respected makers. just galls you.
meir
I was a local club meeting the other day when one of our newer players came in with a cardboard box, opened 'er up and took out a plastic set of practice pipes..and tried to tune 'em up to play…initially I was taken aback because I thought the poor bugger had actually bought one of these aforementioned plastic creatures…it turned out to be one of Rogge’s plastic chanters. I didn’t get a chance to hear the chanter played as the reed as not working well, the newbie couldn’t play any of our tunes at the moment…and I had to leave early for a Dr. appointment!
On that “note”..what have people’s experiences with the rogge’ budget sets been? He has a good reputation, and I find it hard to imagine he’d put out something that wasn’t quality gear. Are there any owners out there willing to contribute constructive comments?
DB
I’ve only heard about Rogge acetal chanters once or twice and they were good reports. If I recall correctly, one of the owners was in a really cold climate (like Denmark) and felt the synthetic over a wooden chanter was better suited to the weather.
He’s smiling 'cause the photographer told him to.
The ad states it’s over four years in development and plays both octaves.
– Tony
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Hee hee hee - - yeah, and all adverts are based in truth! 
A Hoover will play two octaves as well, given enough time and pressure! (The Hoover might well sound better, too!)
As for Rogge’s polyactl (sp?) practice set, I bought one two years’ ago, and never had a problem with it, other than the typical reed adjustment necessary for our dry climate here in Colorado. I recently sold it as it wasn’t getting used very much (I always played my full set) and so I sold it off to a friend and instructor who had much better use of it. The last I’d heard, it was still going great. Granted, it’s not something you’d appear on stage with, but for the money, it does a fine job of being what it is - a practice set.
Brian