Anybody have these pipes?

Uilleann Pipes
1

Never heard this maker before:
http://www.burleywoodwinds.com/ullieann.html

2

Write to them and ask the pipemaker’s name. If they don’t have a name, you can assume they are of Pakistani make. If they do have a name, contact that maker and confirm that those sets are his.

djm

3

The maker is Graham Burley. The home page on the website give a little information on his pipemaking background. Haven’t heard of him.

Is it just me or do the regulator pins look like arrowheads?

4

I notice he has Scottish smallpipes available in “A” and “B sharp”… :confused: Technically possible (since it’s C-natural), but weird nonetheless.

5

They they have a very nice look to them. I guess that doesn’t mean that they sound good, but if they sound as good as they look.

6

I’d be sorta cautious about ordering until the maker is ascertained… I don’t know of anyone who makes good GHBs as well as uilleanns…
Dave

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I’d be sorta cautious about ordering until the maker is ascertained… I don’t know of anyone who makes good GHBs as well as uilleanns…

Plenty of good makers made Highland Pipes and Uilleann Pipes. Even the historical greats, Taylor, Coyne, Crowley.

A student of mine has a McHarg half set of Uilleann pipes and they sing. It has the sweetest chanter I’ve heard in a long time. He makes a great set of Highland pipes too.

By the way, was the use of the term “uilleanns” not debated, chatted about, vomitted on, a while ago.

I told a prominent piper once that people sometimes refer to the instrument that we have devoted our lives to as, wait for it, “uilleanns”.
To which he replied, “Jeesuusss Tommy, that felt like you just punched me in the stomach…”

Remarkable.

Tommy

8

Sorry to be pedantic but neither the Taylor Brothers or Coyne ever made a single set of Uilleann Pipes. They did however made an instrument known as the Union pipe :devil:

Uilleann is an invented name (Gratton Flood) with absolutely no historical backup to give the instrument an “Irish” authenticity.

Like it or not Union pipes are not specifically Irish and were made in England, Scotland as well as Ireland (are there any early Welsh Makers ?)

9

True enough… although by 1800 evidence has it that the union pipes were commonly being referred to as the “Irish Bagpipe” as well. This means the instrument was associated with Ireland even whilst being manufactured elsewhere.

much like today, I suppose…