Here is another old snap I was sent years ago. Caption says it all, Pat Brophy recorded a 78 in the 50s too. I think it was the 50s, maybe before then, I don’t know how interested HMV and Parlaphone and Decca would be in solo piping by then. The Brophys played C or C# pipes made by some Dublin maker I think. Nice hum off them, they were interesting pipers too.
Andy Conroy you can read about here and there. Big set of Taylor[ish] pipes he has there, in later years he played a Crowley, also a Rowsome chanter and a Matt Kiernan C set, again, nice hum off those. Funny that Andy would own such a huge set and then just play the chanter! If indeed it’s his, maybe he just borrowed them for the photo.
