These two stamp images come from http://www.hotpipes.com/sts0024.html.
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…dated 2001
More work by Norm Stiff:
You might recognise this as the cover of the book Move Your Fingers, about the life and music of Chris Langan. This is of course a portrait of Chris Langan.
Buy the book here: http://www.cranfordpub.com/books/chris_langan_book.htm
On eBAY:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7370963022&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
I had a passing thought that maybe you had removed the image Cynth. I see I spoke too soon.
Hard to say, about “The Blind Piper”. The standing pose certainly suggests Pastoral, but then again, it’s not too common for artists to get the details of unfamiliar objects 100% right. I could be convinced either way about the length of that chanter.
p.s. - Joseph, you’re right, I think that top etching is a masterpiece. What kind of pipes, I wonder? Seems short for union/uilleann… so who’s the artiste?
I had another look at your pictures and, if the painting is accurate to scale, then, given the length of the foot of the chanter, I think that the Itinerant Irish piper is playing a pastoral chanter as well.
billh - what do you think?
David
Wouldn’t it be nice of someone at NPU to photograph their collection of portraits and then post them on their website (which seems to be inaccessible more than not).
That etching that Joseph posted fills me with awe and jealousy. Truly brilliant.
P.S. I promised Joseph a wee painting in February or March 
Now that I have a bit of cash for paints(it’s been that tight), I should have it done this week.
Marc
Actually, Joe’s etching is of a recorder. (Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha 
)
djm
I remember that there was a drawing of Seamus Ennis on NPU’s site a while ago. The site seems to have imploded. Does anyone have the pic?
Mukade
The picture of Paddy Conelly looks very similar to a sweedish bagpipe (have a look at the bottem instrument on this website).
http://www.sackpips.smedja.com/index.php?id=16&L=2
From what I can see there are many different types of Sweedish pipes like there are with french bagpipes. The pipes played by Paddy Conelly look like a combination of all the different types listed on that site. Maybe there is a link somewere between the Sweedish and Irish music traditions? Many Nordic people fleed to Ireland and Scotland during Napoleon’s attempted invasion of the Union in the early 19th century. This is about the time that the pastoral pipes appeared in Scotland and the final form of the Uilleann Pipes developed in Ireland.
Cheers L42B 
Erm…I think the Swedish pipes you’re referring to are a modern instrument developed by the German/Swedish pipemaker, Alban Faust.
And a special shout-out to any Gaelgeoiri lurking about…
That drink coaster has “Pib Uilleann” written on it…a common enough sight in modern Irish, but if we’re going to get all nitpicky about it, shouldn’t the proper spelling in this case be “Pi(o)b Uilline” or something like that? Different case ending, that sort of thing…
Played by someone with the mouth of a jellyfish? That’s the end of a bag neck on top of the chanter, AFAICT. Given the high position of the thumbhole I’m going to guess French Musette du Coeur…
Bill
Oooooooo, you big meany, them’s fightin’ words! Just as soon as I can ‘man up’, I’m gonna come lookin’ fer ye. 