Is anyone still making double chanters?
What, you don’t think pipemakers are crazy enough as it is? 
The couple I saw had the two reeds really tight together. This sort of thing would probably be twice as difficult to reed and tune.
djm
Chris Bayley might be making them.
When I visited Chris several years back he had an original Taylor double chanter and also an experimental one he had made that was two concert bores. His 2004 list gives a fully keyed one (Taylor style 4 keys) price £700.00
e-mail him for details and availability
I played one that Dave Hegarty made. Nice one too.
Tommy
I’ve come across a Howard double chanter in C. What a mad concept, as if piping wasn’t hard enough.
i talked to liam o’flynn about 12 years ago at one of his concerts,and he said to stay well clear of them?
i heard one belonging to kevin henry played by mikie smith - even in the hands of a great player they sounded horrible
The whole raison d’etre for double chanters (i.e. greater volume) has been obviated by electronic amplification, so they’re an evolutionary dead-end.
No E
Yeah, but they’re fun in a perverse sort of way…imagine the looks of horror when you pull out a double chanter with slightly out of tune reeds in the presence of 2 or 3 especially prissy classically-trained fiddlers…
MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA 
I’ve played Kevin’s double chanter several times, like all chanters it works/sounds better some days than others.
Charm of a double chanter is its sweetness of sound. Double chanters are no louder than a normal D chanter. They are, basically, two narrow bores in one stick.
Double chanters were also done in C and B but most are in concert pitch.
There are a couple of tracks around somewhere of Leo Rowsome on a double stick. I agree that the sound is unique, kind of like 12-string guitar vs 6-string. Like anything out of the ordinary, it can be overused, but makes a pleasant change.
djm
A wet-tuned chanter–the box players would love it.
No E
Drones and Chanter Vol 1 has one track with LR on the double chanter.
Apparently the Sean Reid Society has recordings of a piper playing a Double Chanter.
Chris Bayley just told me that his Chanter was NOT a Taylor, but was contemporary in their style.
By the way, eventually he will be making me a Taylor style double chanter to go with my new monster set due later this summer.
Cheers,
Mike
I am happy…You are jealous, but more importantly, you are jealous. 
For some reason, listening to a double bore chanter reminds me of listening to the Hardanger Fiddle, from Noway.
Brad Angus has made a couple, one at least is fully keyed. I’ve monkeyed about with trying to get random reeds going in it - also in a Taylor that was in his shop. Quite a chore to say the least.
O’Neill reprinted a plate showing the development of the Irish bagpipe - he shows a primitive bellows blown pipe with a double chanter. Aren’t there extant examples of Scottish double chanter pipes?