About those Lawries I bought with the big fat wood mounts, a friend just picked up a similar set, a Time Capsule set, still in its original box.
Which says By Appointment to His Majesty the King.
Now a couple people have told me that my new Lawries are older than the seller thought, possibly 1930s.
Back to Ebay pipes, here's something you don't see every day, a Scottish-made blackwood set with a $300 opening bid (no bids yet) and an $550 Buy It Now.
They're made by R T Shepherd. https://www.ebay.com/itm/15487844913...kAAOSwJaxiH3GE
I briefly owned a Shepherd set, I thought the drones were quite mediocre.
One day a fellow piper and I took apart five or six sets of pipes (including an early Lawrie, an early Henderson, 1940s Starck, and a couple modern sets) to mouth-blow and evaluate the volume and tone of the drones heard individually.
The most resonant harmonics-rich tenors were from my friend's c1920 Henderson (no surprise there).
As I recall the best bass was my c1905 Lawrie.
In any case we had a set of Shepherds, which had both the poorest tenors of all, and the poorest bass of all. (The caveat being that it was a sample size of one.)
Last edited by OC Richard; 3rd March 22 at 04:47 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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