Does anybody have an idea who the maker of this set can be ?
http://www.leboncoin.fr/instruments_de_musique/806897432.htm?ca=17_s
Bellows are stamped, but Leo R usually stamped his canters and mainstocks. I presume if the latter were stamped, the seller would have mentioned it.
The chanter looks vaguely Kiernan, but the silver/stainless metal work would not be typical of Kiernan.
I think it looks to be a set made in Pakistan. The chanter looks like the chanters you often see on the Pakistani made practice & half sets. There is also the big drone switch, apparently a feature of these sets. I could be wrong but I think I’m right. The bellows and bass drone puck could be after market additions, or an attempt to imitate the style of a Rowsome set. How does it sound? Prehaps it’s been tweaked and is playing ok?
http://www.hobgoblin.com/bigpics/gr26054.jpg
http://celtinstmakers.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/pfs2.jpg
Somebody on the French forum suggests it might be a set made by Leon Rowsome.
I don’t think the pipes in the photo you refer to are by Leon Rowsome. Leon’s pipes were designed more like Leo Rowsome’s instruments.
Leon Rowsome playing his set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC4jguDxKEM
Someone wrote that Leon’s pipes were very like Leo’s, but not so finely executed.
The video is a bit grainy but it looks like Leo’s personal set that Leon is playing.
I’d estimate Matt Kiernan too. The chanter key blocks and ‘mounts’ have similar qualities to his work.
The bass & baritone drones look like his work too. Large stop keys are one of his trademarks. On the other hand I’ve never seen any of Matt’s stuff in silver, and he rarely worked in ebony/blackwood. The resonator puck I’m also unsure of.
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The chanter on the set for sale looks very like this chanter which i reeded up last year. No-one knew who’d made that either, but after some discussion on fb the general consensus seemed to be probably Matt Kiernan, although Leon Rowsome was also a suggestion at that time, not least that the bellows and main stock with the chanter were stamped with Rowsome’s stamp. At the time i felt the chanter top was probably unoriginal.
I have to admit that, even though all of the holes had clearly been moved/re-sized at some point,the chanter played very nicely indeed.
BTW Leon Rowsome’s personal set was one of Leo’s make.You can tell it’s not Leo’s personal set in the video as his set had no high D key.
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Hello. I’m the one who suggested it was a Leon Rowsome one.
But it appears after all that I was mistaken by the mouldings turned out in the same piece of wood than the rest of the chanter:
I have seen since that Leo did the same sometimes.
(sorry for my weird english..)