I have been using my own milled woods for making musical instruments, here at Bagpipeworks we made our first Roller-Matic mill about fifteen years ago for harvesting the many native timbers like Holly, Laburnham, plumb etc, that were unavailable over the counter.
I use the timber for the bellows, fittings drone stocks and many more, in the pictures are bellows made from Burr Elm, Laburnham, Walnut, Mountain Ash
fittings from Holly, English Boxwood and stocks from Apple, I use everything that I can get hold of, instead of using the exotics, I stain the holly black to resemble Ebony.
Irish or Uilleann Bagpipes are the instruments I make.