Practice bagpipe chanter

Abstract

The present invention is a practice chanter for simulating a bagpipe chanter. In its most basic form, the practice chanter of the present invention includes a flexible airtube, a fipple head attached to the flexible airtube, and a rigid whistle tube attached to the fipple head. In this basic embodiment, the whistle tube includes a plurality of holes disposed at predetermined locations along the length of the whistle tube corresponding to locations of holes in the predetermined bagpipe chanter, with each of the holes having a predetermined diameter such that the key and pitch of notes produced by the practice chanter correspond to notes produced by the bagpipe chanter. In the preferred embodiment, the practice chanter is dimensioned to simulate an Uilleann Pipe chanter. In this embodiment, the whistle tube holes are disposed in the same relation to one another as with an Uilleann Pipe chanter and each hole is of a predetermined diameter that allows notes played by the practice chanter with a given fingering pattern to correspond to notes produced by the Uilleann Pipe chanter played with the same fingering pattern.

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