Not cheap at $1700 but a lovely set of old chalice-top Lawrie pipes.
I think these were more or less their basic/introductory model in the 1950s and 1960s, as I recall they called them "antique style".
I used to have a set of these back in the late 1970s that I got for $150. They had been sitting in a music shop for many years, with no takers.
The general consensus amongst pipers back then was that these were inferior pipes, and old used ones were sold very cheaply indeed. A local High School bought around a dozen sets direct from Lawrie back in the 1960s for their beginning pipers.
That all changed when Alistair Gillies started playing a set! Suddenly the prices skyrocketed.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/R-G-Lawrie-...p2056016.l4276
Last edited by OC Richard; 13th December 23 at 03:32 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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