I just received the sad news that Colin Ross has died.
He was a legend as Northumbrian piper as well as pipemaker.
RIP Colin Ross
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Re: RIP Colin Ross
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Re: RIP Colin Ross
Back in the 1980s I got into the NSP for a time and I purchased a beautiful boxwood set in D from Colin.
Needless to say the set was perfection.
About the timeline for the style of modern SSPs made by NSP makers, which are essentially an open-ended keyless NSP chanter with the holes arranged to produce a Mixolydian scale, the Burleigh catalogue I saw c1980 offered those. I don't know if those were a recent response to Colin's SSP, or something Burleigh had been offering already.
Needless to say the set was perfection.
About the timeline for the style of modern SSPs made by NSP makers, which are essentially an open-ended keyless NSP chanter with the holes arranged to produce a Mixolydian scale, the Burleigh catalogue I saw c1980 offered those. I don't know if those were a recent response to Colin's SSP, or something Burleigh had been offering already.
Richard Cook
c1980 Quinn uilleann pipes
1945 Starck Highland pipes
Goldie Low D whistle
c1980 Quinn uilleann pipes
1945 Starck Highland pipes
Goldie Low D whistle