It is with sadness that I am putting up for sale a beautiful David Quinn B fully keyed (7 keys) chanter in pear wood, boxwood mounts, and brass along with a matching wooden top, but no stop key. It was made approximately sometime around the year 2000 (again, as far as I am aware). I bought the chanter from Michael O’Donovan about 2 years ago at the Southern California pipers tionol. David was there, and did concur that it was was definitely one of his own chanters. The chanter has great tuning in both octaves. It is comes with 3 reeds: the first made by Mr O’Donovan when I bought the chanter (playing GREAT), and the second by Tommy Martin (also playing great), and the third is by myself. All reeds are playing well, in tune and are very stable (videos and/or sound clip to follow soon).
I am selling this chanter strictly for financial reasons. I hate to see it go… it is a fabulous chanter and I spent a long time saving up the money to buy it.
This chanter was originally made to go with the 3/4 set of pipes that K+Q made for me around 2003-4. This is the same 3/4 set pictured in uilleannobsession.com’s Koehler + Quinn section, about half way down the page, just below Pat Cannady’s B set. After K+Q finished the set, they had some reservations about the balance between the pear chanter and the rest of the set. In what I’m guessing is an unconventional move, K+Q offered me the choice from three different chanters: the pear chanter advertised here, a blackwood chanter, and a plum wood chanter, the one I ultimately chose after much deliberation and playing all three.
I had heard from Benedict that the pear wood chanter had gone west to California, and it’s quite nice to see it again, even if in pictures. I already sent a message to Joseph about the chanter with the same information I’ve shared here. I would like to reunite the set one of these days, but I don’t have enough funds to make that happen right now. Whoever winds up with this brilliant chanter, just keep me in mind if you ever decide to sell it. My fortunes might change in time.
By some stroke of good luck, good timing, and a genuinely great guy in Joseph Sampson I’ve been able to reunite this chanter with the 3/4 set that goes with it.
Lovely…just lovely.
I made a few quick videos of the set with the pear chanter as well as with the plum chanter I’ve had with it since the beginning, and I uploaded those to my Instagram account (@travishix).
As TravHicks stated, the chanter is now sold and has been reunited with the original 3/4 pear wood set. It was an honor and a pleasure to see them brought back together. Such a great set should be together.
Trav- the videos and look and sound great. I hope you have manymore years in the future to play the set.
All the best
