I love it when Virginias gets knocked about in conversation as if it were all just alike. Nope, not all Virginias are the same. I smoke that MacBaren Virginia #1 in a wide pot or just an abnormally large pipe, not tall, but wide. Volume of smoke seems to tone down the acidic biteyness of it. I'll do this with thopse Virginias that seem more acrid, like Blackjack also.
Flakes are smoked in my tall stacked Hilsons, usually rubbed out, but sometimes I'll fold, but folding is not my preferred relaxed way of smoking flakes.
The fermented McClellands get my usual bulldog pipes, sometimes a tall skinny dublin, but mostly the wider, more .8x1.2" chambered pipes.
The more earthy Virginias, I might smoke in a latakia dedicated pipe, just to give it some spice. A really super sweet Virginia... well, I have one pipe dedicated to my absolute favorite sweet Virginias, and that is my Tinsky bulldog with a chamber more like a billiard than a funnel.
Of course this will mean diddly squat to anyone else, but it is all based on my own discoveries with trial and error. Wide to tame the acidic, tall skinny to focus flavors, average pipes for the run of the mill, and the spicy pipes for the bland ones.
YMMV, but what I would say is the takeaway here is that you can't just call all Virginias the same, so you'll need to diversify your thinking on which pipe for which specific blend.