I wonder how many sets Leo Rowesome made? Presumably most of them still exist. Did he make any flat sets?
Count 'em up for yourself:
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/the-rowsome-sound/49600/6
I’ve heard, though I have no personal knowledge, that Cait Reed’s Rowsome set is in C.
Willie Rowsome definitely made some ‘flat’ sets including sets in C and at least one in Bflat.
I myself have never heard of a Leo Rowsome set pitched below D.
What C set does Leo play on King of the Pipers might I ask, he said askingly?
T
There was a piper, by the name of Lonan Byrne, around Dublin in the early eighties who had a boxwood C full set made by Leo. The chanter had warped and Eugene Lambe made a replacement chanter out of ABW, using the keys from the boxwood chanter. Lonan still had the original chanter as well. He was selling the whole lot at the time for around 900 pounds.
I don’t know if he ever sold the set; I presume that he did.
Regards
John
Apart from his own D pipes, the only other set that Leo played publicly (that I know of) was the Vandaleur set but I don’t know what pitch that was in (the chanter looks too long to be in C). Peter Laban had a good look at that Vandaleur set and may be able to tell us what pitch it is in. Here’s an interesting article about Leo and the Vandaleur set:
Here’s what it says on the sleeve notes of “The king of the pipers” LP.
Is it correct to say that pipes go from concert pitch to three whole tones below ?
Here’s what it says about Leo, You dont here much about his two brothers.
RORY