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Sorry to go off topic gents but those McHarg and Goodacre pipes ( I would like to have J. Goodacre eventually make a set similar to Barnaby's Brown's 18th cent. set ) are just beautiful Bill. Along with Hamish Moor and the late D. Marshall, those fellows make wonderful instruments. I bet those Cornish pipes are great fun to play. Back to bonnets then. Thanks Allen -Bakertown does great work too.

You're absolutely right - the Cornish pipes (although James Merryweather calls them "Goodacre Doublepipes") are a blast. I was playing them while busking at the Christmas Market in Union Square Park in NYC over the Christmas holiday weekend. One of these days I'll update things on my site and show you some real treasures among my collection.

I played prototypes of Barnaby Brown's pipes when Julian was still making them and they are a marvellous instrument. I'm hoping to get a shot at his reproduction of the Iain Dall Mackay chanter one of these days. I think it would be great to pair it with Barnaby Brown's drones.

Bill