Thanks to Naka I. & Jonathan P., facebook friends, for alerting me to this 45 year old interview. Micheál Ó Riabhaigh playing and talking about Goodman’s pipes rescued from the tomb and still being played by Eoin albeit with a Froment chanter. I assume the original chanter is north of 440. Micheál evaluted the set to be worth 250 sterling in 1966 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l_QfxrCoww
Eoin playing the set with a Froment chanter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQcVrvWo2_Y&feature=related
Back in 66 the average weekly wage was £5 so that was equiv tae 50 weeks wages.Now then todays average is £500 per week (if ye can find a bloody job) so that would work oot at aboot £25000 at todays prices. 
I don’t think so. He was just talking it up(Or he wis a secret millionaire)
I understand that John Beatty paid the Taylors $500 for his delux set (1870s, 1880s?).
He must have had a pile under his mattress.
I heard the figure of $500 in a 1992 Rolling Wave interview with Joe Shannon who was then the custodian of the Beatty set. I don’t know where JS got his information.
In 1870 a $ was worth about $25 in todays money.So $500 would be worth about$12,500 today.
Back in 66 the average weekly wage was £5 so that was equiv tae 50 weeks wages.Now then todays average is £500 per week
…so you are saying here that wages today are one hundred times the wage in 1966…
but…
In 1870 a $ was worth about $25 in todays money.
…here you are saying that the value of the dollar has increased twenty five times what it was in 1870. I’m no economics professor, but those two statements don’t seem to agree.
Have ye got nowt better tae do ? 
Why should they agree?.I am stating fact and ..£5 week in 1966, that was my pay packet then.£500 a week would be average today(GB Sterling )
I have no idea whit the pay was in the US in 1966 but it was probably comparable roughly to ours ??maybe I don’t know…whit is it today?
Us dollar in 1870 worth a spending power of $25 today
According to 2002 figures $100 was in 1870 having a spending power of =$1370
Anyways this is of absolutely no importance tae anyone on the planet other than money geeks.So it is just as well ye are not a professor or whitever
However if ye are a insomniacal geek here are some figures fer yoooo…
According to the Annual Demographic Survey of 2005 (based on 2004 Census data), the mean income of men in the US is $39,032 (roughly $18/hour, assuming a 40 hour work week and no vacations), while the mean income of women is $21,762 ( roughly $11/hour assuming a 40 hour work week and no vacations.
In the UK, it looks like the average man makes 471 pounds per week (12 pounds/hour, assuming a 40 hour work week), and the average woman makes 372 pounds per wek (9 pounds/hour, assuming a 40 hour work week).
Source(s):
US data:
Woah…slow your roll homey! 
Just poiniting out that either your calculator is broken, or your way-back machine ain’t workin’ like it should. 
…or maybe you should check your paystubs from 1870 to see what your were being paid in those days 
Love and peace! 
Lurv and peace tae ye too Jeff… 
noo then feck aff…I am just stating figures nothing is broken .Ye are looking at different currencies at different times thats all.Anyways just how important is this eh? in the grand scheme o life this is totally insignificant.I try and bring a little light into a very dry thread and give comparitives fer some interest..then lo,the bugle calls fer the nothing tae add brigade tae come charging doon the hill .Give us yoor figures pray do.I would be interested tae see them.Well actually,thats a gross lie… I wouldnae be interested at all.I have no interest whatsoever in whit yoor wee brain is clunking o’er at the moment…no more than ye should have any interest in my wee brain.Whit I think is as unimportant as whit anyone else thinks.More tae the point it is as pointless as this discussion..
Peace blessings lurv etc be on ye this evening and fer evermore
Who cares about the economics - What is interesting about this old clip is the chance to hear the Taylor set with the original chanter, as from what I understand Eoin uses a Froment chanter with the set these days.
I read that Goodman who died in 1896 gave the Tayor set to William Phair, who in turn died in 1912. Phair in turn let Bob Thompson borrow the pipes, and Thompson won a piping competition in 1897 a year after Goodman’s passing, presumably playing the Taylor set. So is the “taken from the grave story” just a that, a myth? I’ve always wondered why Goodman would want the set buried with him instead of passing it on to another piper so that it could be played (which it appears he did do?). Was it Phair’s grave then that was robbed/releived of the Taylor set? Or did Phair, a (as a gentleman piper I can´t imagine him going to the cemetry himself at night with a wooden shovel) pay for the pipes to be removed from Goodman’s grave and then lent them to Thompson?
Here’s Micheál playing what looks to be a Crowley set in 1963. A year before he was given the Taylor set in 1964:
“Never sacrifice a good story for the truth” 