Amazing seeing you playing them at your home town ...Sweet Strabane.... Joseph (my 10yr old) loved playing with you! They sound amazing! FAIR PLAY TO YOU.... A REAL TREASURE.
Great to read your post here in Galway especially that you're seeing to it that the piping is being passed on to your son. I loved hearing Miss McCleod of Rassay in Scotland being played so well here by this great piper.....at least I think that was the 2nd tune.
This set has at least a couple of super fans over here in Maine. I've based the aesthetics of a few sets of drones on this set. Rick Lines was kind enough to send close up photos of the bass turn around so I could make a copy of it. Seeing this video is so satisfying!
Drop me a line if you ever need any more pics/dimensions. Happy to help and glad the instrument is inspiring makers and players to this day. It’s certainly a very special set of pipes with a powerful sound
Thanks you sir! They bear a striking resemblance to your D set I believe! I’m glad Ted looked after them over the years. It also helps when BK does the reeds for them too haha
They look great I’ve always admired the pics of your set on the website. Hopefully we’ll get a few tunes with them both some time. Incidentally, the Wooffers I have also belonged to Ted 🙈
Ah yes! It's wild that so many pipers around that era were left handed too. There is a lot of left handed Taylor stuff about. And I don't know if the story is true or where it originated from. Must do some investigating!
Great! Have you taken any measurements of the double bore chanter? I'm guessing they're identical but I would love to see a plot of the bores against one another.
thats it exactly. The E is such a strange one to hear on the pipes. It can be a bit jarring but in the right setting it works well. And the lower D is just a great big fog horn, I love it!
