A "joy" to report about Ebay pipes!
I'm a Lawrie guy. My first set in 1975 were new Lawries and I've owned quite a few Lawries since, ranging from around 1900 to the 1960s.
I just got these Lawries, said to be 1950s or 1960s. (EDIT: similar sets have been brought to my attention which are from the 1930s.)
So far they're sounding and performing as I expected they would, with good volume, great harmonics, and super functioning (easy strike-ins and very stable). In short a joy to play.
These pipes have been up on Ebay for quite some time, and listed other places, but for some reason nobody was interested.
They're dense Blackwood with the typical Lawrie spun-nickel ferrules. The bushes are ivory but the rings are plastic. It was typical for Lawrie to mix various materials that way; they mixed ivory, Catalin, and this other imitation ivory that doesn't darken with age.
Last edited by OC Richard; 12th April 22 at 05:12 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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