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Re: Your woodwind doubling story

Author: Chris P
Date: 2017-03-09 16:37

I inherited my great uncle's set of Highland pipes that haven't been touched since I last saw them back in 1984 when I last visited my granddad and uncle up in Wishaw. My mum found them in a cupboard back in late '81 when I was there previously and just before we moved out to Alberta at the end of that year.

I've fully restored them with a new bag, cover, cords, reeds, rehemped the joints and everything else needed to make them fully playable (as well as bought a modern Campbell chanter to play at 453Hz/480Hz) and haven't managed to play them much myself (managed "Scotland The Brave" and "She Moved Through The Fair"), but have let some pipers try them out and they all gave them the thumbs up in terms of how they play and the restoration work I've done.

From what I've been told by a pipes specialist, they were made by MacRae which were a respected maker - mostly in ebony and a couple of stocks are blackwood. They were mace in the 1920s from what I gather and last played by my great uncle back in the '50s.

There are a couple of pipe bands down my way, but I'd rather do solo pipe work than be in a pipe band as I don't like playing outdoors in all weather as they tend to do. One day maybe. Finding somewhere to practice them without annoying anyone will be the difficult part as they only play at the one loud volume level.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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