Hi all,
Thought this might be of interest:
http://elbowmusic.com/historic.html
I’ve started a gallery of old Border Pipes. The first is a 1700’s set and the second is a 1830’s MacDougall set.
If anyone has other pictures they’d like to share, I’d love to add to my collection. Antique smallpipes are welcome too.
Nate
I admire the handsome (& unusual!) ‘orange tea towel’ styling of the bag and bellows covers
Looking at old sets is always fun regardless of where they come from. what is the material used as the trim for the chanter and drones on the 1700 set? Is that horn, or some sort of celluloid, or Brass??
Here is an interesting anecdote: An old piper friend of mine has a set of pipes with the date 1876 scratched in to them. They could be older but they are probably at least that old. Anyway, his father played had an old set, I assume from the 1800s. I asked him what happened to his father’s set (who had passed away a long time ago). He told me that he was buried with the pipes! Well from that conversation I gathered that my friend would be burying himself with his pipes as well - soooo, so much for the 1876 pipes as they have a marked fate!!
Ever heard of a piper being buried with their pipes before?