What's in Your Pipe Box?

[pbutts]

I found this great thread from a few years back that had some super pictures of everyone's pipes that is sadly now closed.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...low-why-72679/

Check it out and then post your own pipes here.



Mine are D. Naill circa 1989, imitation ivory mounts with nickel slides. They came with an L&M hide bag and cane drone reeds. After I got over the Bells Palsy I made a brief attempt to come back in 1993, when I upgraded to one of the original Canmore bags and early Ross drone reeds. When I started up again last summer everything was blessedly in pretty decent shape.

[tulloch]

I play a set of 2007 McCallum blackwood pipes with engraved nickle-plated mounts and slides. Chanter is Shepherd and the reed is whatever our pipe major puts in. The chanter and reed belong to the band.



They are heavy as pipes go but they are the only set I have had. I love them.

[OC Richard]

Ha from the thread title I thought it was one of those threads about all the random stuff we carry around in our cases besides the pipes themselves!

As to pipes, mine are c1900 Lawries, ebony, ivory, and "German silver". Lawrie made large numbers of these pipes over the years, usually seen with that same thistle pattern.

These pipes came with a 1960s Hardie chanter which had been fitted with a more or less matching sole, the chanter seen in the photos. They came with a non-matching vintage blowpipe, cracked.









These pipes are the best players I've ever had, probably. Fitted with Kinnairds in the drones and a Begg sheepskin bag they strike in effortlessly... I can't get a bad strikein if I try. And I don't have to think about the cutoff in the band... you can just lift your arm off and even if there's some air in the bag the things just stop clean. Amazing. (Once you go with sheepskin there's no going back.)

Plus they have a big fat tone and are very stable.

For chanters I have the McCallum band chanter with a Ross reed which plays great. Plus a McCallum 466 chanter for church gigs.

[masonpiper]

At work Pipes at home, so the picture is of my Playing them.

David Nail DN3s, L&M bag, Warnock Chanter ( my son broke the nail one when he was 3, 15 years later and I still think about it)

[Jack Daw]

I am also at work and do not have a readily available close-up of my pipes. I play Dunfion Regimentals, with a Canmore bag and Shepherd chanter. My chanter reed is a Soutar medium, and I have Wygent drone reeds. I do like the mellow sound of the drones, but I'm not entirely pleased with the construction. They are my first and only stand of pipes.