Originally Posted by
kilted redleg
For my fellow piper OC
Don't forget that now in Perthshire champion piper and businessman Peter Weidig has opened up Kintail bagpipes again. He was a friend of Greig Sharp and his family and acquired all his tools and schematics for pipe making, along with tools and schematics from J&R Glen and David Glen & Sons, if you buy a set of pipes from him you're getting a lovely sounding piece of piping history.
Here you go OC
https://bagpipe.news/2021/08/11/kint...rom-the-ashes/
https://bagpipe.news/2021/08/11/kint...rom-the-ashes/
Thanks! Good to hear that Kintail will "rise from the ashes"!
My Pipe Major plays a magnificent silver & ivory 1980s Kintail set which has an amazing tone.
BTW I know that the title of this thread doesn't mention it, but that video was specifically about Edinburgh pipe makers.
About the Kintail "Glen" pipes, I visited a Kintail booth which had several of their Kintail and Glen models several years ago, at the time I had an old silver & ivory set of Glens in my hands. A check of the bores of the "Glen" sets showed that they had the ordinary Kintail specs and were completely different from the vintage Glen sets I've owned.
So Greig might have had old Glen tools & specs at that time, but he wasn't using them for those "Glen" sets.
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