An example of a good solo drone tuning process

How Brett Tidswell tuned his drones on-stage for a hornpipe and jig contest.

8 Common Drone Tuning Mistakes

Drone tuning is actually a reasonably simple process, not a mystic art. Yet I see so many pipers, including many A grade soloists, who approach it in a way that makes no sense and often produces poor results. This post is about common mistakes in the drone tuning process, not a tutorial on how to …

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Tuning your own drones

When I started playing pipes as a youngster, it was more or less assumed that bagpipe tuning was the mystic art of the Pipe Major, so it wasn't taught as a fundamental skill for pipers.  For many pipers today, this is still the case.  And I find this very unfortunate - for two reasons: Tuning, …