A Full Set by Dave Williams will be available for sale. Please email me for further details. Serious enquiries only please.
Alan
Does it cost more than US$7250? 
djm
D’ UH!!! 
Should point out that these are not my pipes. I will merely be passing an email add.,
Alan
djm, I would hope that the set does go for more than $7,250 - that’s only about £4,000 in real money. Didn’t a half set on the NPU site attract offers over £3,000 about a year ago?
Alan, those of us with a Williams set or two of our own would be interested to see what the valuation is - perhaps I’ll send you a PM, it’s not as if this set is on Ebay for all to see the bidding. I presume it’s in D.
Ken
Kenr, don’t getcher knickers in a knot. I was referring to the huff on a nearby thread over someone asking for a K&Q 3/4 set sans chanter for this amount. If they can’t grasp that price, wait till they see how much a full set from a respected maker goes for.
djm
Alan,
Way cool web site.
Your camps look better than ours. Lovely scenery.
Do you let Americans in?
Tell us more about this Williams set.
What I would do for a Williams set, especially if it’s a newer one! Ever since he started using Paddy Keenan’s Rowsome chanter measurements, his chanters sound absolutely heavenly. Some of the most beautiful sounding pipes that man made. 
Completely worth whatever price is aked for them.
-Mike
djm,
sorry, I obviously don’t read all the threads.
Ken
How long ago did he start using those measurements? I heard a Williams chanter the other night at a meeting but I think it was around 4-5 years old.
Cheers,
DavidG
- Dave’s chanters have been constantly evolving over the years. Steampackets 1982 D sounds and plays wonderful, and so does my own 2004 model. Even though they are very different internally. Mine is partially based on Paddys, but I had the choice between several different reamers, all with different characteristics…
A full Williams set is a bargain, no matter what the price is
/Morten
I believe Paddy’s last chanter was a Koehler & Quinn boxwood chanter made from measurements of Paddy’s own Rowsome chanter. The rest of the set was made by Dave Williams.
True - he had a K&Q chanter made in boxwood to go with the Williams set. The original chanter is made from ebony, and Paddy apparently preferred the sound of boxwood…
/Morten
"I was referring to the huff on a nearby thread over someone asking for a K&Q 3/4 set sans chanter for this amount. If they can’t grasp that price, wait till they see how much a full set from a respected maker goes for. " DJM
A Dave Williams full set in D is a different kettle of pipes - more or less priceless I’d guess 
Sounds to me that this argument comes from more of a personal preference than of personal experience. Have a word with any of the ‘world class’ players out there that have had the experience of playing any number of K&Q sets, I think that you may find their opinion on the matter holds a little more water yours or mine.
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I have a D chanter and drones from 1985 and regs from a few year later.
The chanter is always getting compliments from other pipers and recently caught the attention of a pipemaker who wanted to measure it.
I did ask Dave once what had changed over the years and he said that the main differences were slightly narrower bores on some drones and regs.
Dave was a fantastic pipemaker before Paddy Keenan, why else would Paddy have gone to him?
David
Very simple answer… I don’t. But he has stated in another post that he hasn’t any experience with K&Q pipes… hence my suggestion of preference over experience.
I saw PK a night or two after he had got his pipes from Dave. He had put his existing reeds into the new kit (He was playing the old chanter tho’) and they sounded great, despite Paddy making a few protestations about some reed difficulties (that were not so obvious from an audience POV). That is the sign of a mightily crafted set of pipes to me. I have a recording of it that is a pleasure to listen to.
Alan
I wasn’t for a second baggin’ on Dave William’s other styles of pipes! You guys must have misread. All I was trying to do was heighten the sense of greatness of his work for those who are unfamiliar with it. And also state that of all the pipes that I’ve heard, his later works were some of my personal favorite as far as sound. Just an opinion, nt a steatement meant to piss anyone off. I apologize if I upset anyone with my last post.
Thank you Piping Bulldog for the correction on which make of chanter Paddy uses. I’ll keep an eye out for it when I see him in March if he uses it.
-Mike