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Full set

term used for Uilleann pipes with all the drones and 3 regulators

No identical types known (yet).
Set (of pipes)

With all the drones and regulators; An occasional set has a 4th drone (pitched 1 tone [?] below the tenor drone); Sets have been built with even 5 regulators, the fourth and fifth of which were intended to be played, without the chanter, to substitute church organs.


Sources

Breathnach, Breandán: The Irish pipes. In: The bagpipes in Europe, 1 (1976), p.4.