I wrote this article in January 2020 for FoMRHI Quarterly - The Fellowship of Makers and Researchers of Historical Instruments.
The full title is :
The tribulations of designing a bagpipe chanter for the specific requirements of an individual customer lead me to make some observations about the relationship of the musician and the instrument maker.
Preamble
The Secretary asked what we are doing in our workshops, which has prompted me to share the saga of my search to design a stable bagpipe chanter in A. But while writing this I began to ponder on the interplay between the demands of musicians and the abilities of instrument makers throughout the ages.