I may have found a lost set of Taylor pipes (certainly tayloresque) in a local antique store. Cost me $75. Other than the leather on the bag and bellows, they’re in excellent condition and some of the reeds still work!
You can see photos at this link.
$75?? I hope you haggled a bit? 
PJ,
I was cussing you all the way to the link…And I told my daughter to keep on her toes today, after I told her that school was canceled…Serves me right!
You suckered me in!
Chuck
cruel PJ, very cruel.
good one PJ- had me fooled there… 
think I should just crawl into bed and under the covers before anyone else fools me again today- although I did manage to get the kids at school to believe for a bit that the “hot lunch” had been burnt and the cafeteria staff had substituted tofu and lima beans instead… 
I believe I know the origins of the Taylor pipes in this post. They were once played by a piper named Sidd McFinch, a somewhat eccentric piper, who played with his right foot barefoot and wore a heavy hiking boot on his left foot to keep time. I don’t know if there are recordings of him.
Ha! Well done PJ.
I was suckered in hook, line, and sinker because many years ago I DID find Taylor/Tayloresque pipes at an antique store!
I think the set was $100.
It was very odd. There was a Tayloresque chanter and headstock, Taylor style bag with cover, and Taylor style bellows complete with fancy intake cover.
The chanter was keyed, some of the keys blockmounted and some the typical sheetmetal Taylor type. It had a popping valve. Typical Taylor look, black wood with nickle metalwork and real ivory rings.
So far so good, right?
But then it gets strange: the main stock was a crude, homemade job, with four holes. In it were four drones, a small uilleann drone and three drones which looked like they were from some sort of Scottish smallpipe or summat.
The leather washer on the popping valve had a “V” cut in it so that the chanter could not be stopped. Hmmm…
Anyhow I think Sean Folsom now has that chanter. I plays OK when reeded up though somewhat sharp of D, as I recall.
PJ wins. Better than my April Fools shenanigans, which was threatening to quit the pipes and learn the didjeridoo. I think you could get people going on this one for a lot longer!
Oh look, I just inherited an Egan set,
Is it not April 1 anymore? Bollox.
That was a Guddun !!!
After I looked at your link, I had to go look up the definition of “eedjit” in the dictionary, and sadly, found a grinning picture of myself.
Matt
Wait just one dadgum minute here…
I read all the way through that and I didn’t see a set of pipes in it anywhere.
I think you posted the wrong link PJ