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Howard half set
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334490651303 ... SwyNtivyg9


Can anyone confirm if this is genuine?
Headline information says item is in Sheffield, description says Bakewell, Derbyshire, which might suggest the description was cut and pasted from another listing.

Mr.Gumby wrote:

tbjack wrote:Can anyone give me the name of the second tune in that set? Thanks

Culfadda (by Larry Redican and sometimes named for him )

Thanks, it sounded really familiar but I couldn't place it, needed the name to trigger my memory.

Also you need to drop your right knee quite a bit by tucking you foot under the chair. Sit where just you butt cheeks are barely on the front of the chair and tuck your foot back. That lowers the chanter and solves lots of problems especially when you use regulators but even if you don't. Here is a...

BigDavy wrote:uliieann pipes parts. - pipes are in France, I have my suspicions they are Pakistani, but the bass drone piece looks different from the normal sets.

David

i think they might be a Charles Roberts set

BigDavy wrote:More from the County Louth pipemaker's stuff.

Assorted unfinished parts and tools

David

Wow, this fetched £175 . If anyone else is looking for a box of odds and ends and unfinished parts with no guarantee that any of it is any use I could make up several boxes like that.

If it helps, I have a set of drones clearly by the same maker (wood turning and metal identical, including the design of the drone switch, though metal is brass, and the mounts and puck are different. It is a nice sounding set of drones, even though they are not particularly pretty. They are stampe...

A new scam: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Uilleann-Pipes-Half-Set-Minus-Chanter/253527555199?hash=item3b076b7c7f:g:aiEAAOSwMPxavN4R I'm not sure it is a scam. The seller also has a set of Reel pipes for sale on eBay and a piping group on Facebook. He's quite a well known piper, even known in medical c...

A new scam:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Uilleann-Pip ... SwMPxavN4R

rorybbellows wrote:

Ceann Cromtha wrote:

sjcavy wrote:Who else here plays Aebi chanters?

I have his Kennedy-

I have never heard any thing good about Kennedy pipes, I wonder why he chose to copy one ?

RORY

Because the Kennedy he copied was /is a nice chanter.

I use a thin piece of leather glued to the brass fitting on the stock, lubricated with a smear of vaseline, this makes a tight sliding fit between the two parts and an effective seal. Takes a bit of fiddling around to get an ideal thickness of leather but works well in the end.

No

Efficiency is more important than size i.e how much of the air in the bellows is actually transferred to the bag with each stroke and how much leaks out somewhere or gets trapped in folds of leather in the bellows . A lot of people seem to like the O'Briain type bellows and happily play full sets wi...

Tried to buy some of these but I'm being told I can't use Paypal, anyone else had that problem?

Apparently he has tried to do so but Ebay are a law to themselves If you go to the page and click on 'Report item' then on the page that comes up select 'listing practices' and 'stolen item' then at least eBay have been made aware . I would do it but don't want to act on the basis of hearsay as I h...