Does anyone ever sing while they’re playing UP? The possibility of doing that is actually an apealing aspect of bellows-blown pipes for me. Or are concert pitch UPs too loud to sing with?
-David
I know a fellow who does that. Dones on, chanter stop key applied, he’ll sing a verse and then play the melody, apply the stop key again and sing, and so on. I don’t know how commonplace that is, but it works. A very nice diversion, IMHO.
I have only heard one guy play and sing at the same time,that was at Miltown a few years back.I think the singing was to cover up the fact that he wasnae very good on the pipes.I don’t know about yous lot out there but I can’t even mumble to anyone when I am playing let alone sing!!!
I think its called concentration…anyways I think the chanter sings along very well on its own without me interupting it.
Slan go foill
Liam 
I do, occasionally, sing The Parting Glass while playing with chanter and drones. That’s the only one, though…haven’t found too much call for it
Christy O’Leary is known for singing and piping …he used to play with Boys of the Lough, and sometimes appears with Tim, his brother, a fiddle and whistle player.
There was another ould fella who played and sang…Séamus Ennis…they say he was quite a good player too. 
Willie Clancy sang a bit.
They say that of all the trad instruments, the chanter comes closest to replicating the human voice.
Iarla O’Lianiard and the singer in Danu [Tom ?] both sing while being piped.
Boyd
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Come this year and learn to make reeds [teacher Alan Burton], or get a whistle lesson from Mary Bergin.
Francie McPeake/the Mc Peake family. Plenty of singing with pipes there.
If you’re thinking of trying it out, have a bash at “the oul piper” (tho’ I can’t remember offhand which recording it’s on). It gets a laugh if nothing else.
Alan