Practice Chanter

The Practice Chanter ( PC) is a musical instrument that is used for learning the game on the bagpipe, especially the Great Highland Bagpipe.

The practice chanter is a directly blown in wind-cap instrument with a double reed and cylindrical tube drilled. The tube has seven permanent front finger holes and one thumb hole for the left thumb. The handle is the equivalent of the Great Highland Bagpipe. A high-quality practice chanter (Long Practice Chanter ) has the same grip hole spacing as the chanter (English Chanter ) of the Great Highland Bagpipe and the finger holes have hinted, that is felt by the player, the same size as the finger holes of the Great Highland Bagpipe. These instruments are traditionally made from grenadilla, today, also made of the same specialty plastics, which are also used for chanters of the Great Highland Bagpipe. Simpler versions are built from other types of wood. Sound and volume of the Practice Chanter similar to those of Cornamuse, making the instrument as opposed to extremely loud Great Highland Bagpipe can easily be played in living rooms. Some bag pipers, there is criticism that the game feeling during practice chanter is very different from the feel of a bagpipe, since the instrument is held quite different, usually there is no tone, which in principle could, however, be achieved by means of circular breathing, and no drone is present for orientation.

Source

• Reinhold Ege: MacEges textbook for the Scottish bagpipes. Vlg of the minstrels, ISBN 3-927240-08-7

• Double-reed instrument
• Bagpipes
• Practice instrument