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I bought it somewhere around the mid-noughties, I guess.
It's numbered "9" on the back of the head, and is made in Delrin.
It was quite expensive IIRC, at around £200. I don't think he made many of them.

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I have a Tony Dixon 3-piece D-plus, which is a very nice whistle. I take it with me when I'm travelling because it fits into a shirt pocket, but I rarely use the low D hole. In fact I often turn that joint around. Most double-tonic Scottish tunes are in A myxolidian, so I have never actually found a...

Oh dear. I knew he had been having health issues for some years. I knew him from the '80s, when he was an occasional guest with the band I played in. Subsequently I bought a chanter and a low whistle of his making, and he helped fettle my pipes more than once. He was an excellent craftsman, and a ni...

About 25 years ago, I was working as a tour manager on a Kuoni package tour to S. America. One of my passengers, from Aberdeen, had won medals for Highland dancing in her youth. When we got to Machu Picchu, we were staying in the lodge at the gates of the site, and had access to it after dark, so a ...

Does Benedict Stewart have a website?

I slide to the right on my right hand, and to the left on my left hand. Seems logical.

So while we're at it, how many non-Scots can pronounce 'Kirkcudbright'? Or 'Kirkcaldy', or 'Milngavie' correctly? (Even if Milngavie is derived from Gaelic, I'm not going near pure Gaelic place names.) Probably just as many Scots can't handle Danish names either, mind you. BTW 'loch' is never ever p...

I have a stand of blackwood Rutzen smallpipes in A. They don't look much like this, having imitation ivory soles to chanter and drones, almost in the highland style, though plainer. He studied with Hamish Moore, I believe. Mine are beautifully made, play strong and stable, and the reeds just never n...

I saw a movie once-- can't remember what it was as I saw only a few minutes of it-- but it had this dialogue: Character 1: "Where are you supposed to be from?" Character 2: "Well, I'm from Scotland, obviously." Character 3-- who was actually from Scotland-- as an aside to someone...

Dronavirus?

just sayin...

I stand corrected. Thank you.
You know, I can remember the days - up to the early-mid '70s - when professional people like doctors, teachers, lawyers etc., lived in council houses. A scheme was for all classes, not just the poor. [political stuff deleted - Mod]

Just to further muddy the water, in Scotland "scheme' usually means a housing scheme. That's to say, (publicly-owned) council housing - "housing estate" in England, "project" for USAians. Hence the characters in Trainspotting could be called "schemies', i.e. people who ...

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what a fabulous wee film. thank you for posting that.
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That particular album was made in the mid-late 60s, so yes, it's most likely a GenBb. But I saw them a couple of years later, and Robin was also playing Indian bamboo whistles.