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A brief update. The previous owner of the pipes was a doctor who passed away this year, so they aren't stolen. The mainstock is hollow, the regs may have been retrofitted, and Maloney is an initial possibility for the chanter at least.

Second attempt at posting this. I just lost my entire message. I've lived in Dublin for the past two years. I found out about the set from my sister-in-law who phoned me from an auction viewing to tell me that a set of pipes was going to be auctioned today. I went along half expecting to find a Paki...

They're up for auction. If I can get them for a song I will. I can't afford much more than a song

Hi, I haven't posted here for ages. I have been piping though. An urgent question: does anyone have any idea who might have made these pipes, or even how old they might be? It's a 3/4 flat set, maybe in C, I'm not sure. 18" chanter without windcap. Images below, hope they're not too big. http:/...

Do you have to live in Dublin? Other than perhaps stab city, I think that's the last place in Ireland I'd want to live. Then again, I don't like LA much and people from LA seem to *love* it. Different strokes for different folks :) Dionys OK, I won't move to Dublin if you don't like the place.

Wannabe-Piper wrote:Where abouts in Dublin will you be living in?

Harold's Cross, staying in the in-laws' house for a while until we can afford Dublin rents.

Uilliam wrote:
The pipes or your wife ??
Uilliam

I have more experience with my wife than with the pipes...

I'm leaving California and moving to Dublin with my wife, stopping off in Wales for the summer. I'll join NPU and hopefully learn to play these things to some degree of competency.

All the best to everyone,

Andrew

I've used it several times, and emusic is a reputable company. Yes, you have to enter your credit card details. If you download your free mp3s then cancel with 14 days you will not be charged. If you search for "emusic 50" in Google, you might find another offer on their site that gives 50...

I was amazed to see that The Stone in the Field by Tommy Reck is now available for download on emusic.com after long being out of print. Emusic offer 25 free downloads if you join and they have a few other albums of pipers and a lot more Irish music.

Andrew

Print-on-demand is a good technology, but not very suitable for tune books, unless you can find a printer who can give you ring binding or spiral binding. Perfect bound POD books don't open as wide as other perfect bound PBs, and most people would want to put the book on a music stand or flat on a d...

I'm Welsh, Pitchfork. Did you see my earlier post? Andrew Andrew, my apologies for not noticing that. I should also state that I know next to nothing about traditional music in Wales and I didn't mean to make any authoritative-sounding statements. I am aware that there are jigs, hornpipes, reels, e...

the problem is that there isn't really another name for the "atlantic people" other than Celtic, because that was the name given to them. Bob Quinn calls them the Atlanteans, which I guess works as well as anything else. it hasn't quite caught on yet though :wink: I think the Welsh would ...

The thing about Welsh instrumental music is that there are scads of manuscripts full of dance tunes (especially pipe tunes), but not an awful lot of people who had been playing them until recently. I'm not sure how many of these tunes could be classified as "jigs", "reels", &quo...

Can someone help me with sliding up from E into F#, in both octaves? If I just slide off the right hand middle finger for an open F#, the note doesn't sound true.

Thanks,

Andrew