I am selling a set of Geoff Woof pipes in Bflat. I have posted details on the NPU site.
The set were made in Australia in 1982, ebony, nickel silver and plastic. All working very well. 4 key chanter with stop key. Geoff made a new chanter reed and new bass and tenor regulator reeds about 4 years ago as well as a new top for the chanter cap, all else is original. The set plays very well and sounds great, very airtight.
Check out the ad in NPU and contact me for more information if youre interested.
I’ll try to get a picture on here for you all to see. I am pretty inept at computers and the like. Perhaps I could email it to someone who could post it to this thread for me.
Giles, is this the set you were playing when you came up to Toronto for the Langan Weekend 2002? Sweet set. What’s the deal with selling? I hope it is not an emergency need for funds. Shame to part with this. But why am I telling you something you already know.
Hang on, I’ve answered my own answer. Here it is again (4th pic from the top):
Howdy Giles! How goes it?
Giles on a couple of occasions let me play his B Wooff - Mr. Embarrassment of riches, this guy - they were playing like a set should, he knows what a good set is like. Helps that he’s neighbors with Craig Fischer - who he has a D set from…anyway that should be an inducement for y’alls, Giles wouldn’t shellac a Wooff set, even in the name of Art.
I own a set from Geoff Wooff that was completed in 2001 and is in the pictures on Pat’s up obsession page as listed earlier. These are NOT the pipes that are for sale.
I am certainly not stopping piping, think i’m crazy or something? (don’t answer that)
The set for sale is from 1982 and is pretty well all original except for new reeds made by Geoff Wooff for the chanter, bass and tenor regulator. The metal is nickel silver and the mounts are fake ivory(plastic). The chanter has 4 keys, the chanter top has a stop key. The chanter top was originally tied into the bag but Geoff changed that to the standard attachment that he makes nowdays about 4/5 years ago when he made the new reeds.
The set was on loan for about 4 years to a very good piper and was played regularly. I only got it back before christmas and have played the set a bit since then(I prefer my B set). It is all working as it should be, all balanced and in tune and doing everything that one would expect from a set of pipes from Geoff.
This set and other early sets of Geoff’s that I have seen and played are testament to what a great maker he was and still is. I am still trying to figure out how to post a picture.
…we want to see it!!
