Chris Apps was born in the UK and has lived in the US since 2006. He has been playing the bagpipes for over 50 years. His bagpipes have enhanced funerals, weddings, graduations, retirements, birthday parties, product promotions, recording studios, performing arts, the list goes on and on. Chris is a bagpipe reed maker by trade and published a book on the manipulation of highland bagpipe reeds. He has recently developed the PitchGuard Split-Stock System for regulating air pressure throughout the pipes.