Hey y'all! I'm looking to travel next summer and hopefully onebag it, and bringing the pipes along is a fun and slightly ridiculous idea that I like for these adventures. So some other perspectives would be welcome!

I have a pair of polypipes for it and an Cotopaxi Allpa 35L backpack. Basically, the pipes can breakdown to take up about 3/4 of one half of the pack when they're just jammed in there and the drones are at their shortest lengths (and the base in two parts). I did a short bicycling trip last month too and found out the polypipes only fill half-ish of one pannier, when the all drone are fully broken down into a bundle of 5 parts.

I know lots of us have travel specific cases, which are usually big and bulky and meant to be carried as a second bag. Does anybody have advice/experience/thoughts on what the smallest, most volume efficient way to pack down a set of pipes is?

The drone are easy enough, but the bag is a funky shape that is inherently 3-D (that is, it doesn't like packing flat). My best reasoning is maybe there's a way to still use all the gaps and air space it leaves when packed.

Does anybody have pipe bags that are designed to be as small as possible? Or just have a particularly clever way to arrange things to use up the space? A better organization system? Advice on protecting some of the accessories and reeds would be good too, as well as managing weather conditions when you can't keep the pipes inside a house.

The only similar and best comparable thing I can find for this is what Ross Jennings is doing, by trying to play the pipes in every country. Check it out! https://www.thefirstpiper.com/