I’m setting up a listing of makers of non-GHB bagpipes, and I’m 98% sure I once ran across the website of a guy, probably French (maybe German), who made plastic bagpipes in the format of some Continental European pipes, and had pretty good prices like US$500 for some basic plastic pipes. Like I think he offered a Cornemuse du Centre and a Hummelchen in plastic for around that price. I’m not confusing him with Seth Hamon of Texas who makes cast-polymer Swedish pipes, this guy definitely made non-Swedish, non-SSP pipes in black plastic at moderate price.
Hi .I think you are writing about my french cq lowland pipes I am making now for about 25 years.They are made from ABS and have the 1,5 octave ,half closed fingering you find on the modern continental pipes .
I made this pipes in ABS for beginners and as studentpipes ,low budget, to have children an opportunity to start. They are almost unbreakable ,easy to clean and they sound is as a hardwood chanter. I make the drones in wood to avoid condensation in cold air (inside the drones). ( excuse for my english
The presence of “DCIM” says to me that those pictures are either on a phone or a digital camera. To be able to see them, they need to be hosted somewhere and the shared links posted here between appropriate IMG tags.
Finally I found the way to adjust a photo to this forum.
This is a set of cornemuse G-C pipes I made for students. The chanter is injection molding from ABS granulate. Made 200 chanters, and the small drone is turned out of Delrin.The ferrules are GPS ivory. The bass drone is made of Granadillo.Reason for this: To avoid condensation .A bass drone made out of a plastic material will give moisture problems in the bassdrone and reed. This set was made ,25 years ago .
