Most northerly pipers

Yuri · Post by **Yuri** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:22 pm

Last Anctartic summer I've met a guy here (New Zealand), setting out for the summer to McMurdo. He had a set of Scottish Smallpipes. Don't know if his collegues murdered him or not, but for the last summer there was one , in any case.

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:40 pm

bradhurley wrote:Okay, so how about the most southerly pipers? ... Tasmania?

How could any of us forget Phil Wardle of Tasmania who owns the Coyne set? Or Dicky Deegan.

BTW, Tasmania and New Zealand aren't that close to the south pole are they...compared to Alaska, Norway, Finland, and Sweden to the north?

Yuri · Post by **Yuri** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:50 am

They aren't, and in any case, there is plenty of South America still further south.

PJ · Post by PJ » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:26 am

Wasn't there a set of vintage pipes found in Tasmania a few years back? Egan or Kenna or something similar?

Dionys · Post by **Dionys** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:22 am

I've heard of a few different classic/vintage sets floating around both Australia and New Zealand. It wouldn't surprise me if there were a couple in Tazmania.

Dionys

Donald E Baltus · Post by **Donald E Baltus** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:23 pm

liestman wrote:I have played pipes at Pruhoe Bay, on the north coast of Alaska, which is at latitude 70° 24.0' N, well within the Arctic Circle. Admittedly, they were Northumbrian smallpipes, but you did not specify uilleann, so there you go. I have a picture of me doing that somewhere, with a dogsled at my side and the icy waters behind me. I was not there long enough for the pipes to really dry out or for any bits to fall off. I did not see any yellow snow but did go to a great pancake breakfast (where I stole the margarine).

Hey, thanks for the input but of course we're talking about real pipes, not a keyboard layed out on a wood tube with a bellows. Personally, I think NSP are brilliant ways around buying a reamer and learning how to make a reed that will play in the second octave, but still Satan's lazy escape from learning how to play a musical instrument.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:27 am

Donald E Baltus wrote:
liestman wrote:I have played pipes at Pruhoe Bay, on the north coast of Alaska, which is at latitude 70° 24.0' N, well within the Arctic Circle. Admittedly, they were Northumbrian smallpipes, but you did not specify uilleann, so there you go. I have a picture of me doing that somewhere, with a dogsled at my side and the icy waters behind me. I was not there long enough for the pipes to really dry out or for any bits to fall off. I did not see any yellow snow but did go to a great pancake breakfast (where I stole the margarine).
Hey, thanks for the input but of course we're talking about real pipes, not a keyboard layed out on a wood tube with a bellows. Personally, I think NSP are brilliant ways around buying a reamer and learning how to make a reed that will play in the second octave, but still Satan's lazy escape from learning how to play a musical instrument.

Just a little biased, are we?