Gibson Pipe Chanters

We let our customers tell and show you! We include many sound samples of bands using our product, so you can hear for yourself the powerful and vibrant sound these chanters generate.
Gibson Pipe chanters are performing admirably in competition  and are increasingly being adopted as the pipe chanter of choice for Pipe Bands of all grades worldwide.

 Many lower-grade bands across the U.S. and Canada have also found great success  with the Gibson Pipe Chanter. The Blackwood as well as Plastic is bright, well-balanced, exceptionally clear, easy to set, and not so sensitive to blowing or pressure variations. All these features will help generate a better and more reliable sound for your band, whether you're in a top world class band or a hard working street band, the Gibson Pipe Chanter can help achieve the sound you want and need.

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Here are some of our more noted customers
(To Listen to the sound of our customers please visit our Sound Sample Page please Click Here)

• P/M Dave Caldwell won the 1998 All-Ireland Open Solo playing a Gibson Blackwood Pipe Chanter and placed second in the 1998 Ulster Championships)Here is Davie playing his Full Silver Gibson Drones and Chanter. ( Please see more about PM Davie Caldwell on our Reed Page)

• Eden Gr1 PB of Northern Ireland, plays the Gibson Blackwood Pipe Chanter.

• The famed Toronto Metropolitan Police grade1 PB under PM Jake Watson, (Ontario Champions Supreme 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996) played Gibson Pipe Chanters. The Band was featured on a 1995 broadcast of the popular BBC radio program called Pipe Line.  The First track on their CD "On The Beat" CD   features the Gibson Fireside small pipes.
• The newly reformed City of Toronto Police Gr1 PB under the direction of P/M Ian K. MacDonald purchased a new set of Gibson Blackwood chanters and were noted for doing this just after they had received a new set of the famous and highly acclaimed Sinclair Chanters. The band recently won the 2001 Ontario Gr1 Pipe Band Champion Supreme Award. They were also successful in making the qualifiers at  the 2000, 2001 Grade1 Worlds Championships Pipe Band Competition using their Gibson chanters.
• Toronto and District Grade1 PB under P/M John Elliot also played Gibson Chanters when they won the 1992 Pipers and Pipe Band Society of Ontario Grade1 Champion Supreme.
• The Windsor Regional Police Grade2 PB just won the 2001 Ontario Gr2 Pipe Band Champion Supreme with their Gibson plastic chanter.
• The Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Gd3 PB  won the Ontario 2000 GR3 Pipe Band Champion Supreme using the Gibson plastic chanter.
• The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Gr1 PB under P/M Nat Russell (of the famed World Champion Victoria Police PB) played the Gibson chanter.
• The old 48th Highlanders of Canada under P/M Sandy Dewar of Toronto, grade 2, also played Gibson Blackwood.
• The Stirling P/B of Winnipeg, Manitoba, grade 2, also played the Gibson Blackwood Chanter.
• The City of Detroit Gr2 PB had many successes in the years under PM Bill Baird and PM John Mitchell. Under PM Baird the band played Gibson plastic chanters and under PM Mitchell they upgraded to the Blackwood chanters.
• The City of Aberdeen Gr3 PB is one of several bands in England, Ireland and Scotland to recently chose the Gibson Plastic Pipe Chanter.
• The North Coast Gr2 PB of Cleveland, Ohio has standardized with the Gibson Chanter and are the only band to have all Gibson drones too. They recently won the Piping in the 2000 North American Championships at Maxville Ontario. The band has used the Gibson chanter from the time they were in Gr4 to their present status of Gr2.
• The 87th Cleveland PB has also standardized on the Gibson chanter and has won many events from their days from Gr5 to their present status of Gr2. They also are using 90% Gibson Drones in the band. Judges often compliment the band on it's steady drone sound.
• We would also like to feature a couple of younger players from the Ohio area. They are Casey Mullen(16) and Jack Via(12). You can hear a sound sample from a CD that they produced called Knocknagael.

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  The North Coast Pipe Band	RICHMOND GR1 PIPE BAND OF SOUTH AFRICA	The Gr1 Metropolitan Toronto Police Pipe Band (1995)