Making bagpipes means long holes in the wood pieces. Some very long parts I start in the square in a 4-jaw chuck, with a center-rest on the outboard end, then start the hole with a center bit in held in a pin-vise, bore with a long, modified "long-boy" twist -bit, or a home-made "D" bit.
Some items, such as the wagon-wheel hubs, I put a center at each end of the piece with a machinist's center bit. I have a Jacobs chuck on a #2 Morse/jacobs taper which I put in the headstock and feed the work with a 60 degree center in the tailstock. I drilled the hub-blank from both ends toward the center this way as it is longer than my standard twist-bits.
HTH, John