Right you are.
I think I prefer whatever sounds good to my ear. Paddy Moloney’s Rowsome drones sound quite pleasing to my ear; they give me a nice warm feeling when I listen to them, and I think they compliment his Rowsome chanter quite nicely.
I’d like to know as to what was the/some downfall(s) of the Rowsome chanters that Peter mentioned, just simply out of curiosity.
I think the sign of a imaginative and talented piper is his ability to turn these “flaws” to his advantage ,of course to the imaginative and talented piper these “flaws” are called nuance,s or charactor.Liam O,Flynn gets some strange effects from his high E sometimes ,but he uses these to great effect in some tunes .
There is no doubt that the sound associated with some of the most well known pipers ,is is part ,attributed to the individual pipes that they play,they have got their distinctive sound by using the “flaws” in their pipes with imagination and taste !!!
RORY