Kind of looks like an attempt to copy Taylor style regulator keys using block mounts, except the bass. But fancy turning on the end mounts specialy the pins.
I'd chance a guess at a previously badly repaired and since well worn Henley set.
Only a guess though.
Tommy
hmmmm... not quite sure why the image tags arent' working... maybe uilleannobsession doesn't allow remote linking to images...
... sheeesh! how annoying... just click on the link dudes and you will see the pic.
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"... when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise..."
The images on uilleannobsession are thumbnails only. They are linked to a pop-up image. Your pop-up blocker might be interfering with the link. Make sure you link to the larger sized image, not to the thumbnail. Hope that helps.
djm
I'd rather be atop the foothills than beneath them.
The image URL I used links to the full-size pic, not the thumbnail... I guess y'all can copy the link into your browser.
It is really a nice looking set. Too bad that all I will ever do is look at that set. Owning it (or one like it) is so far out of the ream of reality that I cannot even daydream about it... but I can drool over it.
"... when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise..."
PJ wrote:A Cork pipemaker? Didn't know such a creature existed. Extinct now?
Alphonsus (Alf) and his father Maurice Kennedy made GHB and uilleann pipes in Cork. It's been said that they inherited the uilleann pipemaking tools of father-and son Tadgh and Denis Crowley of Cork.
Here is a set that surfaced at the Chris Langan weekend this past spring. A Taylor (you decide) set owned by George Balderose. Mick O'Brien holding this. Mick Played the chanter with an ad hoc reed - played very competently and had a wicked high D and E.
Below a photo of Mick O'Brien's B set by Alain Froment.