can anyone recommend a pipe\piper CD that features full use of
the drones and regulators for some\most of the tunes?
thanks Dave.
There’s a good two volume compilation CD called the Drones and the Chanter. The first volume contains recordings of the classic pipers (Rowsome, Ennis, Clancy, Moloney, etc). The second volume contains recordings of the next generation of pipers (McKeon, Browne, O’Flynn, Potts, etc). From memory, all of the tunes have regulators. Some of them are quite nicely done. The compilation is good because the players play exhibition pieces, and play them very well. There are no other instruments.
An interesting aside, on the first volume, one piper (Dan O’Dowd I think) plays a double chanter!!
Ronan Browne: The Wynd Ye Know… More regs then you could shake a stick at 
Brian McNamaras Fort of Jewels, the measure of his playing is exkwizit. Or Tommy Martins, he’s handy!! To name 2 of many.
Alan
Jerry O’Sullivan’s ‘Invasion’ has some nice work involving all regulators here and there.
Anything by Ronan Browne, darn his hide. 
He made me spend more than I could afford when I heard his Port na Bucni (I can’t spell that)…
Ronan is the man when it comes to regulator playing. His version of Port na bPucai on the Drones and Chanters II could very well be the standard against all other recordings ot the tune should be measured. Get on Patrick D’Arcy’s UilleannObsession.com site and find the RTE broadcast of Ronan playing at Willie Week (2003 I think?). He plays “The Flax In Bloom” and the regulator work on it just kills me…It’s right up there with Sgt. Pepper and the first Jackson Five album…
Also check out Paddy Keenan’s self-titled debut album.
No one has come anywhere near the virtuosity of Johnny Doran when it comes to recorded regulator playing - buy the CD “Johnny Doran” at:
http://www.pipers.ie/shop/detail.lasso?SKU=314
There’s so many ideas there flying about. Otherwise listen to solo and/or live recordings of Ronan Brown, Paddy Keenan, Mick Coyne, Peter Laban, Geoff Wooff, Leo Rickard, Mikey Smyth, Mick O’Brien, Joe McKenna, Jimmy O’Brien Moran to name but a few pipers …
Neillidh Mulligan.