Selling My froment Set...
- benwalker
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Selling My froment Set...
Unfortunatly due to economic necessity... The Monster 4 reg Froment concert set I own needs to find a new home.
The set was originally made for Jim McGuire and is the only 4 reg concert set in existance (so I am aware)
I am a professional piper and the set has been kept in excellent working order. The chanter hasn't been used much as I use my O' Briain chanter. There is no chanter reed in the Froment chanter but I can sort something out with the buyer and get a working reed for it.
I am really sorry to let this set go but the economics and such mean I have to sell this beautiful set and downsize to something a little less extravagent.
Asking price...offers over £7500 which is what I bought them for around 3 1/2 years ago.
For pics of the set email me at ben@benwalker.org
Cheers
Ben
The set was originally made for Jim McGuire and is the only 4 reg concert set in existance (so I am aware)
I am a professional piper and the set has been kept in excellent working order. The chanter hasn't been used much as I use my O' Briain chanter. There is no chanter reed in the Froment chanter but I can sort something out with the buyer and get a working reed for it.
I am really sorry to let this set go but the economics and such mean I have to sell this beautiful set and downsize to something a little less extravagent.
Asking price...offers over £7500 which is what I bought them for around 3 1/2 years ago.
For pics of the set email me at ben@benwalker.org
Cheers
Ben
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Ben,
I'm sorry to hear you're having to downsize. Just to pick you up on the comment about four regulator concert sets, Dave Williams made two that I know of, here's a link to Marc Guilloux's set made around 1982
http://www.pipeshow.net/images/Vignette ... e-(25).jpg
Ken
I'm sorry to hear you're having to downsize. Just to pick you up on the comment about four regulator concert sets, Dave Williams made two that I know of, here's a link to Marc Guilloux's set made around 1982
http://www.pipeshow.net/images/Vignette ... e-(25).jpg
Ken
As least you qualified if with a (so I am aware)only 4 reg concert set in existance
There are a number of makers who produce concert sets with more than the 'standard' three regulators.
Patsy Touhey in his 'hints to amateur pipes' states that 3 regulators and three drones is normal but plays a set with four regulators and 2 drones. Have seen working drawings of it and there is an 'e' regulator tucked away underneath in place of the baritone drone nearly out of sight in photographs him.
Anyone know if any of the tracks on the NPU produced CD feature Touhey using this regulator ?
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Good luck with the sale Ben!
For those interested, here is Ben's website, the home page has a partial photo of the pipes in question.
http://www.benwalker.org/
For those interested, here is Ben's website, the home page has a partial photo of the pipes in question.
http://www.benwalker.org/
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It's been good to me. But then I've worked at it just about 7 days/week for 17 years. My last vacation was in 2002 (to pick up a set of pipes in Spain!) When you have your own business, you don't work full-time, you work life-time.Software development is where it'$ at!
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Good man Jeff. I look forward to seeing them in the raw.
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