Jack Campin doesn't know much about Uilleann pipes. That much is clear.

Unlike your response, Peter, Jack's reply is quite reasonable, asking as he does for further information on the somewhat baffling acoustical properties of the Uillean bagpipe chanter. As a surmise, his Is the chanter made just conical enough to turn it into an oboe? is accurate enough I would have thought.

Why not enlighten us further?