Hello: I am searching for some pictures of Taylorpipes . I have seen some pictures “in the past” but cant remember where.
It is the regulatorkeys I would like to get knowledge about .
Ole
Thomas Johnson has stuff on his site at
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46103557/taylor.html
Dave Quinn has written beautiful articles o nthe Taylor’s work in both the Piper’s Review and vol 2 of th Sean Reid society Journal
Here are a few from my site:
Pat Sky’s set - http://www.concentric.net/~pdarcy/photos/photo_taylor.jpg
Sean McKiernan playing Patsy Touhey’s set - Photo by Peter Laban - http://www.concentric.net/~pdarcy/peter_laban/sean_mckiernan.jpg
There is also The Koehler & Quinn page with many Taylor influenced instruments on display http://www.concentric.net/~pdarcy/page5/page5k.shtml
These shots are of Barry O’Neill’s Taylor chanter. It is in the lesser known style of block mounted keys which the Taylors also used:
http://www.concentric.net/~pdarcy/photos/nfcscupc_051503_1.jpg
http://www.concentric.net/~pdarcy/photos/nfcscupc_051503_2.jpg
http://www.concentric.net/~pdarcy/photos/nfcscupc_051503_3.jpg
http://www.concentric.net/~pdarcy/photos/nfcscupc_051503_4.jpg
Think that’s all I have???
Patrick.
Love those pants pictured above…the guy sitting down playing the Taylor pipes. Might need a popping valve or strap though! 
http://www.concentric.net/~pdarcy/peter_laban/sean_mckiernan.jpg
Dane Piper,
Try the Universe of Bagpipes by Sean Folsom
he’s got some pics of a Taylor set looks like
the same set that Patrick D’ Arcy has on his
site or its very similar anyway they may help
you with what your looking for. 
Sean’s set isn’t aually a Taylor but is a very good old Taylor style set. I think when I spoke with him last he thought it to be a Patsy Browne?? Please correct me if I’m wrong someone!!! Definitely Taylor style though… mightn’t do it any harm to remove the “ould” formica from the drones either??
Patrick.
Behave Patrick,
Almost Taylor - have a set in for restoration attributed to Brennan who worked with the Taylors and inherited their tools. As you can see the keywork on regs is of simpler form than that used by the Taylors.
More pictures showing views of Regs and chanter at
http://www.bagpipeworld.co.uk/Gallery/Brennan.htm
Denmark - I have a Taylor style set due to go to a customer fairly soon in your direction based upon the Beattie/Burke sets with the quad bored Baritone and Tenor regulators - will ask the customer if it is OK to pass on his details to you so you can see them
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There should be a couple pictures showing above but they do not appear to be coming up - any advice on how to add them ?
Chris,
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Thanks Tony
Pictures now added.
Chris
Try the mercer museam in bucks county , pa . for the taylors tools . There is a full set of taylors just sitting there , under a glass case . Included in the tools display are the taylor bros . pipmaking tools . There is a section of the museam devoted to Ivory as well . There is in the back , behind the turtle shell mirrors , and Ivory combs , a taylor chanter , I guess since it had Ivory on it they put it there .
I wonder what the security measures are in a small museam in a rural section of pennsylvainia , lol . Just wondering .
tok . p.s. In the pipmaking tools display case , you will find no reeds in the taylor full set in dee . I wonder where they got too? Don’t look at me , I am perfectly happy with my roberts set of which I have made my own reeds for . Rumor has it the reeds were stolen .
:roll: tee hee hee . I remember seeing the glass case about 5:30 as the sun was setting . Luckly , The case was set under the window low enough so that the pipes were not exposed to the sunlight and even the green velvet bag cover was not bleached out over the years , had the sunlight been hitting it directly .
tok .
Nothing irks me like seeing a perfectly good set of pipes going to waste in some museum. If possible, they should be reeded up, played, and lovingly maintained!
What the old pipemakers - the Kennas, the Maloneys, the Coynes, Colgan, and Harrington say if they saw their life’s work gathering dust in some museum under the watchful eyes of academics who have no interest in them as instruments but they’ll be damned if they’re gonna let anybody without a PhD touch 'em! ARRRRGHH! 
I imagine the security there is a bit tighter than at the Mercer museum.
When William Taylor died, Charley sold the tools and a set to Robert Hutton of Wilmington, Delaware. Hutton was a Scotsman who made Scottish pipes. William Taylor both played and made Scottish pipes. The whole lot was, in turn, sold to Murcer in 1928 for $125 (pre-eBAY).