Wow! What a difference! Impressive!
If it’s a left-handed set, that could be really bothersome for you. I would be happy to take it off your hands… 
Truely is a wondeful looking set there.
This thought had come across my mind as well, being a lefty myself. 
Umm.. Yummy..
That is such a beautiful instrument. Great work Jeff. It still galls a bit to know that it was sleeping all those years in an attic less that 40 miles from me…
Certainly looks a nice set of pipes and you probably got them a wee bit cheaper than if they went on Ebay
JC wrote : nice enough to still sell me the Brennan at a good price, knowing that a similar set had just sold for $7600. Well, the buyer of that set expressed frustration in his e-mail that she didn’t sell it to him, and he told her he would have topped my offer. How classy.
Who is this idiot trying to do backwards deals, not the same one who who suggested the sale of the other set on Ebay be halted. All very underhand.
John
You’ll find underhanded people everywhere, unfortunately. Even within the otherwise loving, accepting, open-armed, sometimes brawling but ever loving Uilleann community. Let’s shun them.. YOU ARE SHUNNED!
Certainly a nice looking set, “but” when are we going to hear them. 
Not until he finds an existing double bass reg connector to duplicate!
(or SOMEone willing to fit him up with a fixit )
The woman who found this set in the attic of her father’s abandoned house sent me some pictures of her great-grandfather. I’ve got pictures of him as a young man (playing pipes), and as an older man (also playing) and also sitting in front of the house in which the pipes were found. She also sent me a copy of his immigration certificate, dated 1911. He came from Ireland (born in 1880) and settled in Pennsylvania. Cool stuff to keep with the pipes.
Nick Whittmer looked over the set and pointed out that the tapered bore piece that connects the double bass reg was on backwards, and that there is no missing piece after all. He also said that the set looks like the set has not been modified from original…that the bores and chanter holes do not look like they have been modified.
Oh, give us a look see! Love that stuff. NPU will be keenly interested as well I’m sure. Let’s have his name, I’ll see if it’s filed away in my noggin somewhere.
There used to be a huge Irish population in and around Philly - not too surprising the Taylors settled there. There were so many Donegal people that there were prolific recording artists like John McGettigan who made 78s with lots of flings and barndances, which in Donegal are called highlands and Germans, which weren’t recorded so often in NYC or Chicago. Philly piper Tom Standeven learned his Irish from Donegal people as well.
I sent Charlene a note asking if she would mind if I post the pictures. Once I have her permission, I’ll post them. Her great-grandfather was the piper Thomas Coyne, born in County Galway, 1888. He Immigrated to Johnstown, PA in 1911 (at 26 years old).
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject:
I’m glad to report:
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A friend of Tom’s(Standeven) has found (in Tom’s papers) a copy book from someone who worked with the Taylors (but he is not sure who it belonged to). It has lots of odd news clippings, a few photos, a little guide to piping. It includes also
- measurements for 2 Brennan chanters
- a drawing of an E regulator
- drawings of an F regulator and F regulator keys
- to scale drawings and measurements for D regulator keys
It refers to a book by James E. Brennan Sr. on Irish Bagpipes and Pipers - How Made and Played. This may not be the title of the book, but it would be something like that.
There is also listing of pipers in the area ¶which includes Thomas Coyne in Johnstown (2xx xxxStreet) who had a set of pipes with 4 regulators. There is no note on who made those pipes.
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Odds Are, You may be the second owner of those pipes Jeff.
USED to?
uuhhh…We’re talkin millions here, Kevin.
the Taylor/Brennan/Hutton/Standeven trail in Phila is rapidly becoming a pet project of mine…
Yeah, I was trying to convey that there was a huge interest in traditional arts as well, lots of newly immigrated people, but the succeeding generations have morphed into your typical Americans, as happens everywhere. I don’t think of myself as Swiss, although I am prone to involuntary yodeling occasionally…
NPU have a picture of Thomas Coyne already. Just the three regulators, it looks like my old set in ways - one piece keys folded over the regulator body. Written on the back is “Tom Coyne/Johnstown Penna.” It’s in their book Ceol na Eierann Vol 1.
is this your man?
(npu archives:tom coyne comment :Johnstown Penna.)
if it is, he’ s missing the contra reg…maybe he’s still on the waiting list at this point
I wonder what typical wait-list time was like then
Interesting pose - RH pipes played by a lefty with bag downside up
and tenor reg to the fore
John
Didn’t Willie Clancy do this with a B set of Coyne pipes?