Is there anykinda instructive videoclip for beginner available about reg playing from net?
I think that humanbeing is totally wrong designed…need a third hand immediatly ..eh eh
Not from the web, but NPU’s tutor video No. 3 has regulator playing in it.
NPU’s video tutor #4 is completely dedicated to learning regulator playing.
djm
Indeed. No. 3 is the introduction to reg playing, and it’s fairly brief, but helpful nonetheless.
Also, there’s a document that appeared in the Piper’s Review some time back about regulator playing… anyone have the link to that doc?
Yep yep, I know there’s a NPU stuff. available etc..but just asking if there’s such put perhaps free on youtube or other links.
I 'm interested about cords when playing just top hand ,chanter on knee,taking these 3 cords along.
Soooo a different world when having regs with drones indeed.
ajaa ei olla joten saita 
djm
Saw your set in Bill’s place the afternoon just before you arrived to collect it. Very nice. Also admired your own handiwork. And tried out his specimen chanters which I found sublime, and [gloat]placed an order[/gloat], about which more anon.
I was thinking of starting a thread to chart my own belated efforts to tackle the regs, so why not share our experiences on this thread and invite comments from others who have mastered the black art?
The advice on the NPU DVD that you get the regs “reasonably in tune” is more sensible than it will sound to most perfectionists. One can get locked into a frustrating experience of spending so much time fine-tuning them that the mere detail of playing them slips into second place. And if you don’t know how to play them, you won’t really know when they’re going well, as your impressions can be distorted by varying the bag pressure when you’re tuning them.
With your new set, I have no doubt that they were perfectly in tune when you collected them, but they may have gone a bit off as they moved several degrees of latitude further north 
. However, unless they’ve really gone badly off, I would suggest you don’t waste too much time fine-tuning until you’ve made progress playing. There is an excellent article by Geoff Wooff on tuning the regs which really ought to have been included with the DVD: consult this article when you think the time is ripe.
Next up is the matter of posture. The post title above is a reference to the fact that I have tended to adopt the Quasimodo position when playing pipes, and my efforts to reach the reg keys in that position have made things much worse. So do what Adolf Hitler used to do, and practise in front of a mirror, and discipline yourself to sit as squarely as possible. Look at videos of Liam O’Flynn and you’ll realise that it is possible.
The setup of the pipes is a tricky issue, because as long as you don’t know how to play them, you don’t know how they should be set up (in terms of angle relative to the horizontal and to your body, length of connecting hose between bellows and bag, degree of rotation of the stock and rotation of each individual reg etc.). I only discovered a year or so ago that I shouldn’t have even been bothering to try to play three regs together, the norm is only two at a time, and knowing this makes the task less daunting.
I’ve put on a few inches around the waist since I got my present full set, and the fact that the hose was already too short made the Quasimodo problem even worse. I’ve taken note of some previous discussions here - and Crowley’s tutor is if I remember correctly also of some use - and am trying to position them at an angle approaching the horizontal, rather than have them tucked up high into my armpit and falling at a steep angle across my knee. If you’re fairly thin, even how far forward or back you sit on your chair matters: I’m trying to sit a bit further back into the chair than I used to, so that my thigh is flattened out, increasing the area against which I can stop the chanter bellmouth.
To be continued…
PS: Patrick, waar ben je?
Hi Roger
Hope to see you at the Dutch Tionol
Concerning posture
I learned from Mikie Smith how to move my regleg
(rightside knee in my case)
Carel
So do what Adolf Hitler used to do, and practise in front of a mirror
Wow I did not realise he played the Uilleann Pipes - always wondered what drove him to madness and now we know 
On a more serious note and I expect it has been covered before - why are regulators so difficult to get into proper tune ?
John
Pipes are wonderfully in tune even been here dry (+27 c)north 3weeks now,
i think that perhaps they sound now even better than in ireland.
Worst thing I noticed when playing regs, is having good seal (on knee) with chanter while having a good contactpressure with reg keys .
Playing works "rather well " when working with “upper” parts of regs, but when going"down"to take cords , really need to concentrate which part of wrist is the best to press keys sametime keeping chanter playable.
The problem of sealing the chanter bell while playing regulators with a moving lower wrist can be delt with by adding a popping valve to the chanter. That’s why they are made. It can close the bell at any angle you move the chanter to, while keeping it on your thigh, when moving your wrist around over the regulator keys.