Peter said he plays a Rogge set. at least the one he played for his lecture here in Milwaukee, a couple months ago.
Nice set pf pipes, Hicks!
Only the beehive set isn’t kenna. The chanter is but the rest isn’t, Mark Walstrom thinks (and I would agree) it’s Ryan. The mounts were not original though,it seems they were put on later.
Paul,
Thats a Mulcrone set. He was a pipe maker that lived in Dublin around the 1910-1940s ish. (I could be off the mark there) I think he may have spent a ibt of his spare time with Willie Rowsome, learning the skills.
Neillidh Mulligan has a set too. Peter Browne got his set from Seamus Ennis. I don’t know of any more in existance.
Tommy
Wasn’t the set Ennis gave to the Brownes a Brogan?
Peter,
Your right, I always get Brogan and Mulcrone mixed up because Neillidh has one of each. The Brogan that Neillidh is in D and the Mulcrone is C#.
Is that right?
Peadar Broe played a Brogan too.
Tommy.
I once spent a day with Geoff Wooff in the Science Museum in London looking at the old lathes an the stuff made on them. Unbelievable displays of crafmanship.
There used to be a 200 year old Henry Maudslay lathe at the Museum of Science & Industry/Natural History in Los Angeles. Very precise & smooth carriage movement. Gotta love museum’s with their “please do not touch the exhibit’s” sign’s…heh, heh. 
Maudslay also invented a bench micrometer capable of measuring 1/10,000 th of an inch. Those old boy’s knew what they were doing.
Hey folks. Anyone else have interesting photos?
Davey, what more can you tell us about this set? I’m very curious.
- Bill
And speaking of chess pieces:
Who made these?
Who made these?
Kind of looks like an attempt to copy Taylor style regulator keys using block mounts, except the bass. But fancy turning on the end mounts specialy the pins.
I’d chance a guess at a previously badly repaired and since well worn Henley set.
Only a guess though.
Tommy
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I am quite fond of the K&Q Beehive set, personally.
http://www.uilleannobsession.com/photos/koehler&quinn/c_beehives_4.jpg
hmmmm… not quite sure why the image tags arent’ working… maybe uilleannobsession doesn’t allow remote linking to images…
… sheeesh! how annoying… just click on the link dudes and you will see the pic.
… so is Dr. Lewis Blevins. 
It does… I don’t know why this doesn’t work? The thing wasn’t working for me last week either???
Patrick.
The images on uilleannobsession are thumbnails only. They are linked to a pop-up image. Your pop-up blocker might be interfering with the link. Make sure you link to the larger sized image, not to the thumbnail. Hope that helps.
djm
Try pressing your control “Ctrl” button when you click on the pic. It should open up in a separate window then.
The image URL I used links to the full-size pic, not the thumbnail… I guess y’all can copy the link into your browser.
It is really a nice looking set. Too bad that all I will ever do is look at that set. Owning it (or one like it) is so far out of the ream of reality that I cannot even daydream about it… but I can drool over it.
Nope, don’t like the beehive set at all, but that Crowley makes my mouth water, stirs my loins and casts off a continuous glow of fresh pearls!
Sorry couldn’t help waxing poetic. That your set biliii? Would be nice to hear a sound clip, to find out if it sounds as good as it looks.
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