These are only mine until Saturday when i have to hand them over to the customer. Cornemuse du centre , ebony with pewter mounts and art deco marquetry:
exceedingly handsome pipes
New Garvie border pipes in mopane/box/gold plate, with high B/C/C# keys and alto drone…
http://www.petestack.com/blog/music/border-pipes-and-ben-vorlich.html
Here are my beautiful Highland pipes, made by Michael MacHarg. They are made out of blackwood, moose antler, and nickel engraved by Roddy MacLellan and are based off of a Lawrie design. I play them with a Bb MacHarg chanter, a sheepskin bag, and Kinnairds in the drones. I much prefer the smooth look over the drones being beaded.
Here is a (dark) video of me playing the pipes, sorry for the mistake or two!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruL9CiSnDpQ
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And here are my four drone smallpipes made by EJ Jones. They are made out of silver, moose antler, and blackwood. I have an A and a D chanter for them, and the drones are A tenor and bass, and D alto and baritone.
Here’s a video of me playing them, again sorry as it’s not great quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeIIzkzH5fQ
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Lovely SSPs there Peter.
One time at the Worlds I visited Ian Kinnear’s booth and I heard various top-level pipers play two A SSPs he had there, an ABW and a polypenco set.
I actually preferred the sound of the polypenco set! So big and bold a tone for an SSP, and I reckon it would be ideal for sessions where SSPs so often can’t be heard well.
If I had the money I’d get one of those.
Those are lovely! I really like the Glen style ‘cut bead’ mounts. What are the bores based on?
I just did a better photo shoot of my old Lawries yesterday, in mind that perhaps they might be included on Ringo Bowen’s site.
Here are a couple of the shots. Note that the bass is larger everywhere than the tenors: larger ferrules, slides, etc. Modern makers use the same ferrules everywhere, the bass and tenors being identical in look, just being different lengths. Having the tenors smaller than the bass on the outside isn’t merely elegant, it’s a ‘form follows function’ thing. Lawrie obviously had an ideal wall thickness they liked, and kept it more or less throughout, so the tenors, having smaller bores than the bass, would therefore be smaller on the outside too.
I bought some artificial horn over ten years ago with a view to making these pipes, I finally got around to it.Musette Béchonnet, in boxwood.
wow, very lovely. 
I recall seing a set verry similer to this at blowout, it’s a beautiful design.
just noticed that the inlay is a greenman… very cool… I want one.
That was this set!
The green man marquetry took almost as long to make as the rest of the pipes!
These are my pastoral pipes by Geert Lejeune of Brugge. They are in the key of D and are made of blackwood, horn, and silverplated mountings. They have a robust sound, just a touch louder than uillean pipes but not as loud as highland pipes. The 3 drones are in D (bass, alto, & treble). They’re fun to play, and with their range, I can play most of the Irish tunes I like to play.
My playing isn’t yet up to prime time but, here is link to another set made by Geert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZMFuUycwfs
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos?pid=6062694213667997202&oid=114928075959424312323
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos?pid=6062694224680253298&oid=114928075959424312323
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos?pid=6062694227744304770&oid=114928075959424312323
I seem not to understand how to post the images to have them show up here.
Tjones
When I click on those links, Tjones, all I get is a black screen. Is there a ‘share’ button on the image site you’re using?
Try the links now:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos?pid=6062694213667997202&oid=114928075959424312323
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos?pid=6062694224680253298&oid=114928075959424312323
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos?pid=6062694227744304770&oid=114928075959424312323
Hi,
I am brand new to this forum and am certainly glad that I have “stumbled” upon the Chiff&Fipple!
I am relatively new at piping, having my first set of Shepherd Small Pipes abot 14 months and my wonderful Simon Hope SSP in “D” for about 7 months.
I am happy to be able to share some photos of my Hope Pipes here (I hope the attaching works).
I am also on the wait list for Simon’s Border Pies as well!
I just sold my lovely c1905 Lawries (ebony, ivory, and engraved German Silver) due to both ebony and ivory being banned from international travel, and in addition ivory being illegal to possess within the USA.
I ordered a custom/bespoke set from Rick Pettigrew at Dunbar Bagpipes, St Catherines, Ontario which due to the low Canadian dollar at the time of my order cost only around $1500 US.
Dunbar has started using Cocobolo (in addition to ABW which they’ve always done) so I got that, with hand-engraved David Davidse mounts.
The wood all matches in person- it’s strange how in photos the wood appears to be different colours. Indoors the pipes are a very dark brown, nearly black. In the sun they look more like they do in the top photo, below.
These pipes play great.
Hello, here is a picture of my German medieval bagpipe
It was made by Christian Dreier.
The bagpipe comprises one ninth:
[ g’ | a’ | b ’ | c’’ | d’’ | e’’ | f#‘’ | g’’ | a’’ ]
(An approximate f’’ is also possible via fork-fingering.)
The drone can be switched to A or G.
Most common tunes for that kind of bagpipe are in A minor, some in G major.
Since all my photos disappeared when I shut down my Photobucket account, I thought I would do a post that actually has photos!
Here’s the set I played for a number of years, probably pre-1908 R G Lawrie, ebony, ivory, and German Silver.
When President Obama signed an Executive Order making the possession of ivory illegal in the United States, and not wanting to walk around in public with pipes which were subject to seizure by the Department of Fish and Game at any time, I moved on from that set and got two no-ivory sets.
This set is by Starck, London, and came with a chanter stamped 1945.
I also got this set, said to be by R G Lawrie Glasgow made in the 1940s. This set is a superb player. Many Highland pipers hate old Catalin-mounted sets, but I like the old-school look.
Both sets in their pretty new clothes
For several years I maintained and played Highland pipes in the three sizes offered by all the 19th and early 20th century Highland pipe makers, here they are together where their relative sizes can be seen.
About other types of pipes, I played Bulgarian gaida for many years before I finally gave it up and sold everything to a professional player. Here’s the setup I had, so I could play in an number of different keys.
My Julian Goodacre Cornish doublepipes
My Gaita Gallega
My uilleann set. After playing a full set for over 20 years I downsized to a half set.
