Yep, but the wheelyun' is a chronic, sorry, conical bore. Northumbrian wannabees, try and get some recordings of Billy Pigg. Fantastic articulation.

8 pints is more or less right about the fingering. RH works as described on N pipes, but LH is as recorder. This is a "half closed" system, which I believe applies here as opposed to the "full closed" on Irish pipes.

The practical upshot is that there is a moment when the note is stopped between note fingerings, (at the point where all fingers are down, because the end of the pipe is stopped no air can move, so the reed closes.)

EJ