Originally Posted by
Ancienne Alliance
Hi steve,
It's not a cornemuse.
I would think it something more like Flemmish Pipes or some kind of Dudelsack. Jean Blanchard says they're probably Border Pipes, but I think the tenor drone stock is to far to the rear for it to be so.
Slàinte madh,
Robert
Robert,
My thought is that they are quite similar to the student pipes made by a number of people such as Franz Hattink, Jon Swayne and Sean Jones. It could have been made by any one of them, or at least 3 others I can recall. All of the pipes of this type (at least in my experience) are based around the central French musette chanter and tend to be in the key of G. They usually only have a single bass drone pitched an octave below the bottom fundamental note of the chanter.
Bill
Bill
The tradition continues!
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