Hughs and McLeod Half set to flog for a friend of mine. A similar set just sold two weeks ago on Ebay for 1,400 British pounds to Olga in Sweden. This set is in California, and has a back C natual key ( also key blocks for F natual and B flat) which the other set didn’t have. Blackwood, Imitation Ivory, and Brass. A big Bellows, Leather Bag with a Green Velvet Bag Cover! Travel Case and piper’s appron included. Just about to make the reeds, and I want to get the ball rolling now, will be on Ebay soon.
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Your correspondent Sean Folsom
Looks like I don’t get to even put the set up on Ebay, as a GHB piper wants to buy the set. If this deal doesn’t go through, the Ebay offering is re-scheduled from Wednesday Oct. 19th, 7pm PST to the NEW posting of Saturday Nov. 5th at 8pm PST. The assigned number is#7358734972 but it can only be veiwed by me (which certainly doesn’t get anybody excited). I’m still too new to this computer game, and I don’t own a digital camera
(something MORE to buy) so I don’t know the procedure to get the photos from one end of the net to the other side. A friend of mine took the digital pix I’ll try to get him to this forum. Oh flibberty gibbetts… Sean Folsom
I just thought that I’d post the conclusion to this subject. The Hughs and McLeod halfset reeded right up with the same chanter reed that plays my Tayloresque D set (at 3w hotpipes.com) and the drones were a snap as well. The bass drone has a narrow bore and reed seat, so it takes a narrow o.d. reed, and it is much better balanced with the baritone and tenor drone reeds.
I’ve had trouble with the Geoff Woof sets,with one BIG Bass Drone bore and two little bari and tenor bores…Matt Keirnan had the same configuration, but not the Kennedy and Ginsberg sets, which were/are magical to get right the first time, and don’t gulp the air unevenly.
So the GHB player bought the H and G set without a murmur of disaproval, as I had played the set in for two weeks and I got to liking this 1/2 set more and more as I played it in. Man, I wished I had a set like that when I started out in 1973! Yours in PIPING Sean Folsom