material to choose from. No matter, this new edition will become the ‘gospel’ for those researching old instruments. As pipers we seem to know the top old favourite names,but 99% of could not ID one make of pipes from another and we pipemakers, in general, are no better. So who would you say are the prominent old makers? Henderson, Glen, Robertson, MacDougall, Lawrie, Starck, Center, Hardie (old company not the new), MacRae.The average piper could not name you any more.The point is that when a piper’s ear gets trained enough to ascertain a good pipe from bad and knows that a pipe is top notch, then he usually doesn’t care who made it, where it was made, when it was made, how it was made and from what wood.
and
Thanks to JC her
endeavours we all must and will become more aware
of
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pipemakers who made or attempted to make a living from producing the noble instrument.The length the author has gone to to produce this book, and with such accuracy, is only to be applauded. In closing, I wish to recommend this second edition. My hat is off to you Jeannie. I eagerly await your third edition from the 1980s to the present day. Blue MacMurchie