Unboxing! Full Set of Morrison Uilleann Pipes - Play test & photo gallery included! 

I'm like 5 months into my wait for a FM halfset. This video is helping me with my anticipation. I've even started ordering tools to make chanter reeds. I'm pumped.

Background is never messy when you have a display of first class bagpipes. (In my opinion)

Thanks Matt, because of this and Fred's videos, I've just bought my first practice set. My wallet may be crying, but I'm not!

Excellent Matt!!!!! I am glad that they finally came in for you. They really look Great!🙂

The drones at the end while "going home" was playing were just the bagpipe equivalent of winning the lotery

Thanks for the video Matt! I've been looking at Morrison Uilleann Pipes and your video was awesome. Can't wait to hear more from this set.

I’m excited with you Matt! Nice addition to your collection, huh? Thanks for all you do Mr.Talented.

A nightmarish exercise in evil plumbing, that there! That said, I’m so jealous of your new acquisition. If you get tired of it, send it my way.

Wow... super nice

Great video Matt thanks ! Would love to get a set of these they sound awesome

Sounds great😎

Hi Matt ! thanks for the video, this instrument really sounds wonderful. also the making of it is incredible !! Cheers!!

WHOA that is awesome! I'd love to get a set myself, gotta save up

Ah man, so jealous!! I had sold a secondhand set of uilleann pipes recently and have been eyeing up Fred’s set. One at a time though as I’m waiting on a set of smallpipes haha

fantastic video, it is incredible to be able to have a uilleann pipe !! thanks for your videos !!! (I hope that one day a video of Galician bagpipes lol) greetings from Galicia

How cool!! I’ve heard this is the hardest instrument to play... and it looks like it. But you are playing them like a champ. So glad I found this channel. Thank you!

Double reed people always have a razor lying around :) Thanks for posting!

Wow!

Nice, just saw your link to this on chiff and fipple. I wish there were some affordable uilleann pipes. I'd love to dabble but things arent cheap. Good review.

I've heard horror stories of Highland Pipers trying to go to Uilleann's and becoming discouraged and giving up, you my friend are amazing, I LOVED Rowan Tree! (only one sour note and it's just the pipes need to played in!) CHEERS!

It’s a copy of a good Dave Williams instrument. It’s a fine set of pipes but you’re still going to have the usual struggles all uilleann pipers deal with, ie, weather, adjustments, maintenance, not to mention learning to play well. They don’t hop out of the box and play like Fred or Liam O Flynn or Paddy Keenan all by themselves.

And I thought there was a lot going on with GHBs........ Very interesting video.

Blows my mind to think bellows... lol...just looks very tough multi tasking

Just got mine today

Try finding dry air in either Ireland or Scotland! Nice pipes indeed.

I would like to get a good set like that one day. I have a half set by David Daye now. I love and hate them! The Reed and tuning are a pain! I actually play GHPs by Dunbar. Poly drones and plastic reeds. I haven't had to tune them in over 5 years! No joke. Took them to Iraq with me. No issues. But the Uilleann pipes, are a different story!

In honor of Mr. Morrison, you should play Kansas City Hornpipe.

15:30 Glad I live in the north of England where you're lucky if you can see blue sky then.

I HAVE to get the regulators for my set! 🤞

They look and sound great! I have the opposite humidity problem here - never goes below 65% - probably gonna have to treat the bag with an anti-mold product! How's that popping strap suiting you?

Hi Matt hope you are well, i only play uilleann pipes but am a big Fred Morrison fan as you mentioned you have a lot of his books just wanted to ask is there much uilleann pipe music in his books and if there was a particular one of his books would be best for uilleann as I ken he plays a lot of highland and small pipes

Wow, they really do look far more beefy than I had suspected.

You should check out the song creid from xenogears creid, some of the best uilleann pipe work I’ve ever heard

I’m a highland bagpiper and love the sound of these pipes. I’m so tempted to learn but looks difficult. Are the notes similar to the highland pipes?

What is the tune you played on them?

Matt, how easy was it to learn the different fingering for the uilleann pipes after being used to the Highland variety? And how easy to go from one to the other?

Has anyone tried making a humidification device for uilleann pipes that acts like an oiler for an air compressor? The idea is to add moisture just to the air as it goes into the bag, not the whole room.

Please make a video on how to play Lexie mckaskiel

I really need to get a set of uillean pipes. . . problem is, a full set of the fred morrison pipes costs more than my car did. Do you recommend starting with a half set or practice set? Any specific videos, books, or lessons you can recommend for learning how to play?

Hey Matt, do you know how to get the bottom D to stop gurgling on a set of uilleann pipes?

Is it me or does the chanter always sound a little sharp on Fred Morrison uilleanns?

Matt Willis are you still happy with these? do the drones and the chanters hold their tune well? How easy is it to match up the regulators?

I put an order in for a set of these pipes about a month ago. Did you have to install and adjust the reeds or did they come pre installed?

Maybe off topic but I'm curious as to what kind of humidifier you use for your room.

Fred Morrison pipes made my McCallum?

How’s it coming with these Matt? Gonna post a video soon?

Oh wow, these really are built like a brick shithouse! My old half set was rather lightly built in comparison. I wish I'd never sold them. Love the heavy spoon style regulator keys, the Taylor style is just not up my alley. I like that synthetic O-rings are used on this set, nice to see some of the GHB practicalities being used on uilleann pipes for a change, I know a lot of makers and customers are more conservative and use hemp on every joint, but I guarantee if Leo Rowsome et al had access to 2021 silicone O-rings they would have used them too.

You mentioned bellows... Is it the case that Fred Morrison uilleann pipes and small pipes use the same bellows?

I’ve played the highland pipes in marching bands for over 20 years, but would like to try something new. Is there any way to enter the Uilleann pipes world without breaking the bank?

Tic toc

Price now for full set 2023 🤔