Excellent ideas and the difference does show clearly. I'm just returning to whistle playing after many years and was disappointed in a recently purchased Generation whistle. This gives me hope I know part of the charm of the whistle is in it's querks but I find inaccuracies of scale can be irritating. I have a job to do next weekend :)

My favourite were the 18th century ones that wrapped back up in the stock. Amazing!! I guess they stopped that design to allow for more regulators? Is it the design of it that gave them such a deep sound, or the type of reeds/woods that are used??

As an accompanying guitarist this is really interesting insight for me. I will definitely be aware of this in my future listenings. Thanks Jason and cheers from Brittany !

Really useful video. The added advantage of the credit card hack is that it's no longer available to waste on buying £1000 whistles.

Thanks Jason, really great content, so educational, I feel as though it would take years to pick all the information in this video if you hadn’t presented it like this.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Love the specials effects. Still think you work space tour would be interesting. 🙏🏼😁

Great video as always Jason. The special effects were pretty Hollywood in this one!

Loved the "pocket whistle"! lol

Have you got anything different in you instrument case? Also-I usually stick the blue tac under the main stock for quick fixes or blocking a quarrelsome drone on the fly. Cheers 🥳

Can you recommend a half set that i can buy for a lowish price if there is such a thing , thanks

Very helpful - the improvement in the modded version is well worth the time and effort. Many thanks. Nick the Dogg

It has a nice ring to it.

Got an ad from Musician's Friend saying if I buy a Taylor, get another for 99 dollars. You can imagine my disappointment.

Jason, thanks for this video. I've been playing with drones for about 20 years now, but this video was still really helpful, not to mention entertaining. Keep up the great work.

You are awesome! Thanks so much for putting out all of this wonderful information for us newbies! I am getting my first set at the end of the month and I am over the moon! I am coming from a GHB bagpipe background and marvelling at how vastly different it all is LOL. We normally tune our drones to the same note on our chanter (the “A” note on GHB)…. Lots to learn for me LOL. Thanks so much! I love your channel!

Before diversity and wokism destroyed Ireland.

I actually preferred the eeze-drone reeds, which I was not expecting. Great depth to them (at least through a phone speaker). Great video!

The ezeedrone sound was so unusual (they literally made me lean backwards like "whuuhhh???"). In isolation, the others sounded much more pleasing, but it's hard to pass judgement when during an actual spate of playing, who knows what unique interest that sound might lend the chanter. And to your point, sometimes you trade nuances for maintenance, especially when those nuances won't be heard in certain scenarios. Fun video!

That was very informative, and so thrilling. I bet I'm not the only one who's dying for an elder reed-dedicated video!

Thanks Jason love you vids

I use these drone reeds since 8 years. But had to replace it because the black band gots brittle. But even then, we have to maintain enough other parts of the pipe, so I think it is the best choice!

Highly informative, thanks .

Thanks, Jason, as always very insightful. P.S. How the heck did you get a hold of Pete Townshend's guitar (on the wall in the background)???

My half set is arriving TODAY! Thanks for the video!

My goodness. That Egan set sounds amazing 🎶

The best bass reed I had lasted me 10 years, cried when it eventually died one night at a session. Beautiful sound off your Pipes Jason..

You're a great resource Jason, thanks for taking the time to make these.

Sorry man but each reed is very specific to its chanter. The inner diameter of the Reed itself is critical in tuning.The pakistani chanters main problem is they are fitted with generic bagpipe plastic reeds which sound like shit in any chanter.if the correct diameter of the reed staple is found then the reed will work ok.Reed adjustment is done in eyelash widths which can make a huge difference.

Uhhh, wow, that's actually the Cummings chanter??! Wow... WOW. You've got so many amazing sets! Yeah, truly double trouble. Heck, two pipers might never agree on a setting of any tune, including when it's just one piper playing a double-chanter 😆 Such an other-worldly sound.

The thing I love about open-style pipers is how they contrast it by using closed passages. And the thing I love about tight-pipers is how they counterbalance the feel via open phrases. Great musicality all around!

Do you remember which you played during the heat-up-the-fipple section? Was that a red/brass one? It had lots of character! Fun video 😃 Back when people carried matches, a friend had another tip for a quiet whistle: slide a paper match in the airway. Peel the head off first, of course.

Très difficile !!bravo !!

Great video! Top It Off is such a fantastic tune. But everything I've seen equates the terms Hop Jig and Slip Jig as synonymous (so, a Hop Jig is still 9/8). I ~think~ Tommy Reck puts in an extra beat when he bounces down to the low D, making it go from 9/8 to 12/8 in bars 4 and 8? Regarding the note between D and E, I WISH it was called "ghost E" (I think that's what you're saying? My ears could be fooling me), but alas Ennis himself explains it as Ghost D in his written tutor :-/

savourneen deelish is Irish. 's a mhuirnin dilis. You see a handful of song tune titles in older collections with that term of endearment: "mo mhuirnin"

More vidoe aon tin whistles please

Hi, I've recently seen you on a Planet Imo video. Are the Uilleann pipes similar to Northumbrian Pipes? Thanks in advance. :)

And which style do you play, Jason?

Fantastic video, Jason. Loved your dramatic intro! 😂 It was very interesting to hear the closed and open demonstrated. You naming the different pipers for each style helped a lot in hearing the difference cuz I listen to a lot. Personally, still too new at it to go one way or the other in my own playing, but quit sure my teacher Eliot plays more closed. And since you mentioned Robbie Hannan as a closed player, I know Eliot learned from him and considers him the best. So not much doubt about it. He also teaches closed style, I think, because even as a beginner, he has me doing lots of cuts and very rhythmic punctuation. Although my playing is still far from rhythmic. But 🤔, I think I like the open style better. 😳 Again, great video. Sorry writing a book here, but guess I had a lot to say. Thanks! ❤️

Imo sent me here. Subscribed! Liked!

Very informative! I now know more stuff! Thanks for posting!😍

Phew!!! Yes ! blimey!❤lost for words but those three came out 😂

OMG you shot the video! Can't thank you enough, Jason. Made my day! I'm still too early in my piping journey to understand which style fits me but I do know I learned a lot from this. Thanks for taking the time.

Using both according to the situation is definitely the way to go. The argument made by another comment is spot on on how ensemble-playing requires for a more open piping, but I'd say that even as a soloist, if you played ONLY closed, it gets tiresome real quick. Going back and forth between both stiles to emphasize musical moments is the best that you can do. Is the same approach that most instruments have because usually they are able to do allkinds of different dynamics and articulations. Most of world pipes do not have most of those qualities, and if your pipe (uilleann) has at least a couple of this resources, USE THEM. Thanks for these videos Jason.

A-MEN friend! So glad you made this video. I've had this topic come up a lot in our pipers club, and just generally explaining piping to non pipers. I tend to lean a little more towards closed/staccato. You really nailed the nuances of each and blending the two. You mentioned many of my idols of piping too! anyone watching this video should definitely explore every piper mentioned here. Cheers!

Great video Jason. I'm in the closed / staccato camp.

Mix of both, depends on the tune.

Thanks for a very informative video, Jason. I can't choose. Liam O'Flynn's "Johnny Cope" is a great example of closed piping with all sorts of nuance. It's hard to beat Paddy Keenan's "Bucks of Oranmore" for excitement.

Uilleann pipes only have two settings, off and on. Most other types of pipes only have one, at least when they start playing. On.

Request : please do one on regulator playing 😊😊😊😊

Love these videos ! 😅😅 amazing. I prefer a mix but a little staccato goes a long way !😊😊😊