I noted the K&Q 3/4 set in B is for sale once again as listed in the recent NPU rag. The set is surely acquiring a history of ownership. Imagine the stories it could tell!
I don’t get that “rag” anymore. Is there an asking price?
Asking price is $6000. Rosewood chanter, boxwood drones, pearwood regulators according to the advert. Set is five years old.
This set was first owned by Tom Kennedy…then Lorenzo…and now by at least two different people in Europe if memory serves me correctly.
Is this the set?? (From page 1 of Picture your pipes thread)
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The chanter doesn’t look like it’s rosewood but the drones could be boxwood and the regulators could be pear.
My assumption is that that is the set but that assumption should be verified. Perhaps a “chanter switch” was made along the way. JOBM ought to be able to provide details at either one of the tionols.
The chanter above was made of [u]ziricote[/u] and as dark as it looks. I suppose someone could confuse it with rosewood if they’d seen rosewood that was especially dark, but the rosewood chanters, flutes, and other instruments I’ve seen don’t look like ziricote at all. For a stop key, the chanter has a violin like peg through the reed cap. Picture is here on D’Arcy’s uilleannobsession.com/extras_k&q page.
http://www.uilleannobsession.com/photos/koehler&quinn/kq_b_regs_2.jpg
What’s the “Rag” referring to?
What’s the “Rag” referring to?
Slang for magazine or periodical.
NPU must have a separate listing in their magazine, apart from the classified ads online at http://www.pipers.ie/en/ads.lasso --at least I don’t find it there.
Hm, makes one wonder if there’s something wrong with this set(?)
In the case of the current seller, he states that harp is his primary instrument and that he bought the set on a whim, more or less. However, one must wonder why the pipes keep changing hands.
I wish I had $6K for a whim 
Lewis,
Spot me $6k and I’ll bring it to your house for an afternoon of storytelling 
dave boling
Tom Kennedy (the Maine-based piper) used to have sound clips of this instrument up on his personal website. There is nothing and I mean nothing wrong with the sound of this set.
Lorenzo can vouch for that.
There was a lot of discussion when this set was up for sale a while back. David Quinn had sold it off as a ‘proto/experiment’. Nothing wrong with the sound. The set would have an unusual aesthetic but one sees unusual sets out there. But 6K is still a sizable investment. Will this set appreciate over time?
It is a beautiful set. I heard BK play it years back and it was tremendous.
Right. Those pipes sounded really great. Because of some personal issues in his life, Tom had kind of let them go. The reeds needed a lot of tweaking and the baritone drone was leaking bad. But I did get them going pretty good for what I had to work with. I think they were set up for a lefty. If I remember correctly Tom was left handed, but may have played them RH. The bellows never worked right for me because they were shaped differently – for a lefty.
I was new to the B pipes when I got them from Tom and was having trouble at first with the finger stretch, going back and forth between the D and B sets, and decided I should stick with one or the other. Because of the band, I kept the D set. A couple years later I converted to B…permanently. I should have kept them, but oh well…these Froment B pipes are okay. I mean really fine. 
BTW, this current seller sounds like the guy I might have sold them to. He was primarily a harper, so I don’t know that they’ve changed hands at all. He was a total newbie to the pipes, if I remember correctly, and probably got discouraged. He may have tried to sell them earlier a couple of times.
Ok, never mind then. I was just wondering…
Sorry, but I’m having trouble picturing how a set of bellows could be configured for left or right. Do you mean the set-up for the bellows hose inlet on the bag?
djm
The front part of the bellows–where the hinge would be (the part that might touch the mainstock)–was asymmetrical, not squared off as usual. It was shapped ike this: / For LH. the point rose up and over anything it might come in contact with, such as mainstock or drones and regs. If you flipped it over, the point would tend to want to go under or at least bump into the pipes…making it impossible to play as a RH bellows.
A bellows that is squared off in the front at the hinge would work either way…RH or LH.