I’ve noticed a lot of smallpipes I’ve seen tend to have the drones facing up towards the chin. I tend to make mine more level over the chest so they rest on the arm. I prefer that so the tenor and barritone aren’t blasting in my ear. What way do you prefer?
Marc
For myself, I prefer to have smallpipes drones nice and horizontal across my chest. The same holds true with my border pipes.
Bill
It feels wierd if they touch the arm while I’m playing… I get paranoid… I don’t like to be touched… twitch
No but seriously, I like 'em straight out. Parallel, like wgority said. But then again I’ve not got to the point where I can play drones other than tenor for very long at a time (too much air, and too hard to tune! I couldn’t afford a bellows-blown set, so I got a cheap mouthblown set from a GHB maker)
This may be the real problem. 
lol, yeah, but it was either that or nothing. I don’t really have much oppurtunities for money.
I have rather, er, happy drones. They tend to stick up at a bit of a high angle between my shoulder and my head. This may be because Hamish and Fin made monster reeds for the set and they take a bit more air than most smallpipes.