Don’t know if anyone has seen this site, but some of you may find it of interest - there’s an Uillean Pipe listing
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/ubl/ublg.html#ublgu
Cheers,
DavidG
There is a checklist available (basic Catalogue with no photographs or line drawings) that gives a fuller description and some overall measurements by Hugh Cheap.
The Checklist has been replaced -
"Volume 2 of the Catalogue `Historic Musical Instruments in the Edinburgh University Collection’ is replacing the series of Check Lists published in the early 1980s. This catalogue consists of fascicles of text describing the instruments in detail (available in both printed and electronic versions).
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Cheers,
DavidG
I’ve got some pics and measurements taken from this collection I made back in 1990…er..1989? golly…I’ve gone senile…If I can get my scanner working I’ll see if I can’t share them with you folks. As I recall, it is quite a fascinating collection.
I would love to collect some of this data some time, especially on Malcolm MacGregor. The MacGregor Barrel is a beautiful instrument. I have a picture of a MacGregor Barrel I use as a my computer background. It is a 3/4 set (kind of).
Douglas
The MacGregor barrel in the Reid School comprises 6 bores in a single piece of wood as follows: baritone drone (1 bore), bass drone (3 interconnected bores) Tenor regulator (1 bore) and Baritone regulator (1 bore). Overall length is 330.5mm and maximum diameter 40mm.
Drones are tuned by short sections that slide out of the end of the barrel
Cylindrical bores for the drones and conical for the regulators as usual
Key arrangement is Tenor 4 keys giving F#,G,A & B. Baritone has just 1 key - the D. Regulators are opposite way round with tenor on the outside. The D key has a long touchpiece so that it can be used in conjunction with the lower three keys of the Tenor regulator
Chanter has an overall length of 373mm
Drawings are in preparation
MacGregor made a number of interesting sets one was described in the NPU journal some years back and is the same pattern as the above and another is shown in Fraser but has the musette type layette system for tuning the drones.
There is also another set of his where the drones are separate as normal but are built on the same principle as the barrel with the bass having a thrice bored underjoint instead of an outside loop Predates the Taylor’s design by 60/70 years but the drones are tuned in the same way as the barrel section with short sections sliding out of the top of the drone. It is in the Nation Museum of Ireland collection
A further curious set by MacGregor has a double chanter that is permanently stopped at the bottom by a closed ivory mount to aid pure staccato playing. I have not examined this one but it only has one set of tone holes that I presume lead into one bore - a number of keys are fitted which appear to be arranged to lead into the other bore and thus will act as a further regulator.
This set has a main stock with two regulators but the drones are missing so whether they were conventional or of the separate type described above is unknown.
MacGregor was a great experimenter but commited the ultimate sin - the addition of keys to extend the compass of the highland bagpipe chanter and provide semitones. According to reports this “needless innovation” was sacrificed to the maleviolence of a gathering of the London Pipers Club (The Scottish lot). He was apparently undeterred by this and his performance on the Union Pipes was a success.
Timothy Kenna’s name is mentioned amongst Highland pipe makers?
I didn’t know Timothy Kenna made Highland pipe chanters , 
I thought he only made Uilleann pipes in the early 1800’s, you learn something new every day. 