If the chanter doesn’t require a steady flow of air, try playing the chanter without a steady flow of air and see how the drones react. Not nice. Even a slight change in pressure to get into 2nd octave is often noticeable in the drones.
One also requires steady air airflow to keep the chanter in tune, unless you have one of those chanters that seem to need variations in pressure for individual notes, which doesn’t help.
I should point out, I’m talking maybe 2 or 3 lessons at most plus daily practice of drone tone prior to getting stuck into the chanter.
Ahh, a diplomat steps in (every group needs one). I really enjoyed learning about group dynamics when I was studying for my Psychology Degree - I wish I’d conducted a case study of internet discussion forum group dynamics.
Anyway, back on topic - I’ve enjoyed reading through the debate on drones and I still plan on sticking to my Casio keyboard to generate the drone and regulator sounds (i’ve got a pretty close match after I fiddled with the synthesizer settings on a saxophone sound). Hey… I could be a fully electronic uilleann pipe player when I buy one of those vpipes http://www.vpipes.com/. Can you picture me rocking up to a session with a roadie to carry the keyboard, amp, vpipes, and audio cables?
No see hear young man…I think you’ve got that the wrong way round!!Didn’t you hear about the egg and the chicken in bed with the egg smoking a cigarette and a contented look on it’s face??? That answers that old question don’t you think?
:roll: Oh dear… yet another topic that’s gone off topic :roll: .
Oh well… might as well weigh in .
It’s always good to check on what ‘Science’s’ view is on the matter. This is what I found:
Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.
Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken’s egg. So, the egg must have come first.
Hey… I could be a fully electronic uilleann pipe player when I buy one of those vpipes 
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