The ability to both play and build the bagpipes were not at all uncommon. Bagpipers often built their own instruments, especially where the practice of bagpiping was not so intensive that professional makers functioned.
In Greater Poland, the oldest known makers, often starting the practice of building bagpipes back in the 19th century, were: Kasper Niemyt from and Walenty Kubala from Wolkowo in the Kościański poviat and Jan Blumka from Buk, Antoni Maleszka from Domachowo. In the last decades of the 19th century and in the interwar and the post-World War II period, bagpipes (“kozioł”) were built by, among others: Jan Wawrzyniak from Dobieżyn, Stanisław Grocholski i Marian Wasilewski from Poznań, Michał Kurowski from Kościan, Stefan Lis from Jarocin, Wawrzyn Tomiak from Perzyny, Tomasz Brudło from Wąchabno, Jan Gniotowski from Chobienice, Stanisław Feliś from Grójec Mały, Tomasz Śliwa from Chrośnica, Tomasz Kotkowiak from Zbąszynek, Władysław Szymkowiak from Jarocin, Tadeusz Czwordon Ostrów Wielkopolski, Franciszek Domagała, Henryk Skotarczyk and Czesław Prządka from Zbąszyń, Franciszek Brzeskot from Babkowice from Szymanów, Andrzej Łodyga from Nowy Dwór, Edward Hirt from Chrośnica, Marian Świergiel from Bukowiec, Edward Ignyś ze Śmigiel (later — Leszno), Andrzej and Bartosz Mendlewski from Poznań, Florian Modrzyk from Mosina and his son — Marek Franciszek Modrzyk from Nądnia, Leon Galiński from Gniezno, Piotr Witkowski from Czempiń, Tomasz Kiciński from Bukówiec Górny, Jerzy Skrzypczak from Zbąszynek, Michał Umławski from Szymanów, Bartosz Mendlewski from Stęszew, Stanisław Mai from Zbąszyń, Dominik Brudło from Siedlec, Mikołaj Woźniak from Gniezno, and recently, Karolina Anna Pawłowska from Leszno.
In the Babiogórskie region in the 19th century, bagpipes were built by: Józef Toczek and Jondrej Bury in Zawoja. In the Silesian Beskids, bagpipes (gajdy) were made by: Antoni Krężelok from Koniaków (from Skotnia), Jan Bocek from Istebna-Filipionka, Jozef Haratyk from Istebna-Kosarzyska, Paweł Urbaczka from Koniaków-Legiery, Zenon Kawecki from Bielsko-Biała and Ferdynanda Suchy from Ustroń. Particularly noteworthy is the versatile work of Jan Kawulok and Zbigniew Walach from Istebna, which is retrospective in nature.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Żywiec Beskids was home to such bagpipe makers as: Jan Kubies (Kopcus) from Koszarawa, Maciejny (Wewiora) from Pewel Wielka, or Szczepan Waligóra and Michal Kupczak from Sopotnia Mała. After World War II, bagpipes were built by: Jan Hulbój (Duda Kulaśniak) and Władysław Kubies from Koszarawa, Józef Maślanka from Żabnica (he crafted modified Żywiec bagpipes and Silesian bagpipes), August Piecha and Edward Byrtek from Pewel Wielka, Czesław Weglarz from Cisiec (Silesian bagpipes); an innovator in bagpipe construction (especially regarding reeds) was Feliks Jankowski from Żywiec. Currently, bagpipes are built by: Przemyslaw Ficek from Jeleśnia, Rafał Bałaś and Marcin Blachura from Żywiec,
In the the 19th-century Podhale, bagpipes were made by Stanisław Gąsienica-Gładczan from Zakopane and Maciej Gąsienica from Bystre. It was also at that time that Jan Folfas Grzybek from Witów began building highland instruments (including bagpipes), continuing the practice in the interwar period, when Eugeniusza Sieczka from Zakopane was also active. After World War II, bagpipes were (are) build in Podhale by: Stanisław Graca-Gobera from Biały Dunajec, Adam Kuchta from Bukowina Tatrzańska, Bolesław Trzmiel, Jan Karpiel-Bułecka and Krzysztof Siuty-Sęk from Zakopane, Szymon Bafia from Olcza, Andrzej Budz from Dębno, Tomasz Skupień from Zakopane developed his own model of Podhale bagpipes (slightly modified). Piotr Majerczyk-Tyrlity from Chabówka (formerly from Poronin), who has already built more than 80 bagpipes, is an exceptionally prolific bagpipe-maker. Sometimes the construction of bagpipes is undertaken by enthusiasts of this instrument, living outside the bagpiping regions, such as Bartosz Niedźwiedzki from Koszalin (Greater Poland bagpipes) or Piotr Szutka from Lubaczów later Kraków (Kurpie, Greater Poland, Czech, German and Swedish bagpipes).