My new Michael Hubbert Taylor-style chanter

Uilleann Pipes
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This is my recently received Taylor-style concert pitch chanter made by Michael Hubbert, in ebony, German silver and mammoth ivory.

The external design of the chanter is copied from an original Taylor that Michael had in the shop for restoration when I first approached him about this project. It’s modeled on the block-keyed Taylor design, rather than the ribbon keyed (I already have a Taylor-style ribbon-keyed chanter made by Patsy Brown). The bore is his standard bore based on Crowley.

The chanter top is an original circa 1920 top that came with my old Taylor-style set. I asked Michael to restore and reuse the original top, which he has done adding a new stop key, new top mount and intake pipe.

To my knowledge this is the first time Michael has made a chanter to this particular design, and it is stunning.

Rick

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OOOOOOOOOOOH! :astonished:

preeeeetttttyyyyy!!!



Can we hear it?

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Beautiful!! Michael takes a lot of care with details. Would like to hear some sound clips of it sometime.

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Outstanding work!

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Thanks. I will post a sound file next week for those interested.

Rick

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Gorgeous!

BTW I picked up an old Taylor (or Taylor-style) chanter at an antique shop 20 years ago that had a mix of sheet-metal keys and older-style blockmounted keys. The keywork all appeared to be original. I don’t know how often old Taylor-style chanters did that.

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That’s really lovely work he did. You have a beautiful chanter. I find it really interesting how varied the Taylor mount shapes could be. For example here are some pics of one I had in the shop.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ql43w8lrze1ku5/2013-03-19%2021.14.45.jpg
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