Inveran house Bagpipes

[Brian Browne]

Hello,
I accidently posted the same question in the newbie post, but my question is I am going to inheret a set of Inveran Bagpipes and wanting to know if anybody has expierence with them as pertaining ease of playablity and basic quality? are they made in Scotland or Canada?. Thankyou.

[OC Richard]

It's complicated!

The Bagpipe Place Museum says that Jim Tweedie left Hugh MacPherson to form his own firm, Inveran House, in the 1970s. Tweedie had worked as a turner for both William Sinclair (Leith) and Hugh MacPherson (Edinburgh) before striking out on his own.

https://www.thebagpipemuseum.com/Tweedie.html

But at some point Brian Donaldson (ex-Scots Guards Pipe Major) appears to have taken over Inveran House and moved it to the USA.

Here he is in a YouTube video explaining his relocation to the USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZOcnRgFQhw&t=11s

Here's a video where he shows his shop and his 200-year-old lathe. I didn't know that he apprenticed as a pipe maker prior to joining the Scots Guards. After 22 years he retired from the army and went back to pipemaking, acquiring Inveran House and all of Jimmie Tweedie's tools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWYtBKi3K9s&t=142s