I got to play a few tunes on Gordon Duncan's Glens!

[@headlesspiper936]

Amazing piping and keep up the beautiful work

[@KyleHowie]

Thanks very much! 🙏

[@be8254]

Brilliant playing

[@KyleHowie]

Thank you! 🙏 Was an incredibly nervous but special experience playing in front of Gordon’s closest friends and family on his treasured instrument, won’t forget that for a while!

[@be8254]

Your the closest iv heard to anyone play GD tunes. ✌️

[@austindiepenhorst2494]

Watch your left ear on that bass drone! Haha. Probably one of the best sets of Glens I've played. Stay in tune for days.

[@KyleHowie]

Haha yes! A truly incredible instrument- how amazing they’re still going too and not stuck in a museum somewhere!

[@austindiepenhorst2494]

@@KyleHowieOh yeah! Those pipes need to be played.

[@anthonykellybagpipes]

What an honour that must have been!!

[@KyleHowie]

It really was! An incredible instrument, the jubilee clip is still on the bass drone from when it was broken! 🤯

[@anthonykellybagpipes]

You did them justice ...😊

[@slotpiper]

Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant thanks buddy.

[@KyleHowie]

Thank you! 🙏

[@Kazzabadazza]

Amazing!!!

[@RabLennox]

Wow !! Absolutely brilliant 👏

[@pipesnscotland]

Superb!

[@duncanfkippen7027]

They were Cick Mchphees Glen's originally. God bless him and Gordon.

[@Callllum]

This is genuinely wild. As good a performance as I’ve ever heard 🐐

[@KyleHowie]

You're too kind, the nerves were real!

[@eanderson723]

Outstanding!!

[@KyleHowie]

Thank you!

[@christineborgert5339]

Thank you for making this fantastic music and letting me have a great start into my day 😊. Andy Renwick's favourite ferret is my favourite tune! You played it and also the other tunes so well! I admire you for your skills. It's a pleasure to watch your fingers moving so fast and accurately on the chanter. Have you started very young playing the pipes and practiced a lot?

[@KyleHowie]

Thank you very much! Started learning when I was 9 and a half and was on pipes by 10, almost 23 years now 🫠

[@JockBain]

You are awesome

[@38jonty]

Well played that man. Super

[@KyleHowie]

Thank you!

[@BethRitterGuth]

I watched it twice, and it cracks me up how that guitarist and violinist are trying to keep up, lol.

[@KyleHowie]

That wasn’t part of the plan! 😅😅

[@BethRitterGuth]

@@KyleHowie LOL!!!!!

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

Wow!!!

[@BethRitterGuth]

If you are ever in the States, can you just swing by my house and play??? Fantastic piping, as always.

[@Bagpipebrad]

Good grief Mr. Howie. A treat to listen to. That is some bagpipe.

[@KyleHowie]

Incredible instrument! 🤯

[@gustavf.6067]

Such clean clean fingering! I would love to hear you talk about technique for such clean sound and how to get there.

[@KyleHowie]

All about practising exercises regularly, what a difference that can make!

[@scottgilchrist794]

Land of the free, home to the brave

[@GavinTaylor-jd3ns]

A proper Piper !

[@euanbell6670]

Great work. Can i ask what the names ofveach of the tunes are? Cheers

[@sallywarmington1015]

Great piping - thanks for sharing! Can you tell me which of the Glens made this set of pipes? Both Thomas Glen and his brother Alexander were my 4th great-uncles and I am writing a book about their nephew William Glen (cousin to John, Robert and David Glen) who was also a musical instrument maker, and who emigrated to Australia.

[@KyleHowie]

Wow what a connection! I'm not too sure who exactly may have made them but I'll ask and try to remember to get back to you! They're an incredibly special instrument and it's so amazing to see them out and about!

[@michaelmckee6804]

That was special. However I have a question. Some pipe tunes are meant to be played at warp speed. Especially some of the newer compositions. But sometimes I feel that some pipe music loses its musicality if it’s played too fast. Even hornpipes reels and jigs lose expression at higher tempos. What do you think?

[@KyleHowie]

Excellent question! As someone who enjoys a bit of piob and MSRs I totally agree that things can be too fast! On this occasion of my warp speed (I didn’t even know I was still capable of it tbh!) it was the nerves playing with Ross and Ali behind me and ALL of Gordon’s friends and family in front of me- the pressure was real 🫠 It’s mostly been band medley and MSR the last few months and my set was thrown together on the night- will definitely be slower next time I’m playing in public! 🤪

[@MAMDAVEM]

🔥🔥🔥

[@drturkey1318]

Iv always wondered what set he played ! So the bagpipe manufacturer is called Glen? Also what type of reeds ?

[@KyleHowie]

A beautiful old old Glen, not sure exactly which Glen right enough! Not sure of the reeds set up..

[@michaelmckee6804]

I think that Gordon may have left some of his mojo on the pipes. You can’t drive a Ferrari like a bus it gums up the engine.

[@OFFICIALSniperViper]

May I ask what the first tune was, and is it a Gordon composition? Great playing by the way!

[@KyleHowie]

Ah I should have mentioned what the tunes are! First one though is Gordon's arrangement of "Wing Commander Donald MacKenzie" by Phil Cunningham! The actual accordion/fiddle original tune is epic too!

[@OFFICIALSniperViper]

Thank you very much, you are very appreciated 🙏

[@piperbob2]

I need a finger transplant !

[@KyleHowie]

😂😂

[@piperbob2]

That must have been amazing Kyle! Over the last 20+ years, I've owned the silver-mounted pipes that John D. Burgess had Kintail make for him in 1984 to his spec. with flared drone stocks, and from AB he chose from the stock of Glens, after the company ceased trading in 1983.

[@KyleHowie]

Amazing Bob! I remember watching the video where you go over these pipes I’m sure! Incredible instrument!