G'day again Alison,

Back to your earlier mention of practice chanters: I seem to remember that Jamie Carlin (not too far from you, in North Parramatta) was learning on highland cahnters at one point. I know he has now defected to a set of Ian McKenzie's Gaita Galicia but he may have agood local contact for chanters.

Anyway, Ian McKenzie was running The Australian Pipers' Guild (for whom I ran up a nice t-shirt screen with a rather tiddly koala playing Uillean pipes, while a mug of Guinness sits nearby). I don't know the current status of the group, so perhaps you should ring Ian (up in Blackheath?) - he should have all the gen for you and he is not too far away, either.

Regards,

Bob Bolton