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Scottish Smallpipes | Materials | Price List | Sound Samples

Scottish Smallpipes

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Mopane smallpipe in A/D with antler mounts and walnut bellows.

 

From top to bottom: blackwood with tagua mounts, cocobolo with horn mounts, mopane with antler mounts.

 

Border chanter prototype, with Alasdair Fraser at the 2006 Texas Scottish Festival.

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Materials

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Woods

Mopane   Cocobolo   Osage Orange
Mopane
Cocobolo
Osage Orange
Mesquite

All ferrules are sterling silver.

Got an idea for a custom set? Contact EJ.

Mesquite

Mounts

Tagua Buffalo Horn Deer Antler
Tagua Nut (limited availability)
Buffalo Horn
Deer Antler
Boxwood Elder Olive
Boxwood Elder
Olive

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Price List as of 1 January 2007

Deluxe Smallpipes in A, D or C: $1200
(four drones, one chanter, bellows, drone stopper pins)

Smallpipes without bellows: $1000

Smallpipes case: $80

Smallpipes parts:

Bellows: $300
A, D or C chanter with reed, stock, cap, and sole: $300
Custom bag: $125
Chanter reed: $30
Drone reed: $15

Bellows Case
Bellows
Case

A 10% deposit is required when the order is placed. Shipping cost will be added to total.

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Sound Samples
Three Irish jigs.mp3 (3.2MB) Irish Jigs on the D chanter smallpipe.

EJ played his smallpipes on Robert Earl Keen's recent CD, What I Really Mean.
Hear him on "The Traveling Storm."

He also played these pipes on Ed Miller's newest CDs, Never Frae My Mind and Generations of Change, on several tracks.

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