A leather non-return valve used on some blowsticks. An external cutting tool finish normally chased with a High speed steel threading tool at 24 teeth to the inch normally applied to the outside of the finished blowstick, stocks and drones. Cord The material that holds the drones apart and connected. Cord retainers Ties that connect the cord around and to each drone. That part of the bagpipes that produces the continuos droning sound with constant harmony.
Tenors produce a sound an octave below low A and the bass drone produces an octave below the tenors.
Drone reed seat. The bottom tapered section of the drone where the drone reed seats. A high quality leather pipe bag made from cowhide, not from Elk as the name implies. That part of the drones and stocks that serve to prevent the wood from splitting. The parts of the chanter where the fingers are placed and through which the melody is sounded.