Volume 3 is there 
(or was it there already?)
http://www.seanreidsociety.org/index.html
All right, everything you ever wanted to know about RL O’Meally. I contributed a couple of anecdotes myself, in re: sets owned by Paddy O’Neill and Tim O’Hara, both US residents, their pipes having been mentioned in the Piper’s Review; the latter’s pipes are God knows where; Paddy’s set - or was it Dan Sullivan’s - might still be kicking somewhere or another. Sean, Ted?
It apparently sported a double chanter. I don’t think I saw any doubles pictured in the Pipes of O’Meally article.
Nice 4 color process. What a weird fad that was, a century ago it was all the rage to “colorize” B&W photos. Really sickly results too, like what you got in recent decades with Ted Turner colorizing old B&W films.
Yep, that’s a double chanter. Seem to recall that Jim Dolan spoke of O’Mealy playing the double chanter, when Robbie Hannon interviewed him for that Long Note on O’Mealy. Looks like it perhaps has keys, hard to tell.
The colour does something really weird to the foreshortening of his right knee, too.
When I read those Press Notices in Ronan Browne´s "The OMealy Flyer & Memo" (3.08) and heard his remaining recordings at the same time I had this notion that somehow these comments and OMealy´s playing speed do not quite match. I think it is too fast and the Notes never mention the speed . How safe are we concerning the recordings´speed and pitch? Did he sometimes play other than C#? Or do we perhaps have a very different “taste” about playing speed today?
Hi Hans-Jörg,
All the recordings are from the same broadcast session, on August 28, 1943. O’Mealy is playing in C# as usual; we can be pretty certain the speed is correct.
Article 3.03, O’Mealy Piping Style, mentions that O’Mealy was playing quite fast in the BBC radio session: “This reel is played very fast almost to the point where the listener might think that the recording was playing back at too high a speed. This is incredible playing for a man just short of 70 years of age.”
Ronan does mention in
3.01 O’Mealy Preface that he (Ronan) originally did have a tape that was played back much too slow, so Ronan thought O’Mealy was playing a set of pipes in A! The truth was even more surprising.
For some reason I get a 404 error when trying to access the “McCullough, Belfast” chanter bore data. Otherwise, wonderful job by BillH for all the measurement data provided on the O’Mealy sets. 
Thanks David.
Try it now, I fixed the filename in the index file.
Still no luck yet Bill. This is the message I get -
"The requested URL /SRSJ3/3.24/bore and reamer data/d-mccullough-omealy.txt was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
Could it be a problem at my end?
Cheers,
DavidG
I notice in the photo that the left hand uses the old style finger positions, described in the 18th and 19th century piping tutors, when only the first digits of the fingers cover the holes. Joe Shannon and the McPeake family played this way.
Pat Sky
Thanks Bill, tried the link again last night and it’s all good now.
Cheers,
DavidG