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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:55 pm
by tommykleen
Paul Reid wrote:Here is a set that surfaced at the Chris Langan weekend this past spring. A Taylor (you decide) set...
I simply must see more close-ups of this set. In fact, I insist upon it!

...please.

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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:18 pm
by Paul Reid
Gosh, if you insist!

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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......................................

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:16 am
by The Sporting Pitchfork
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...Delicious...

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:04 am
by Elmek
Nice pictures Paul and thanks for sharing them with us

Any possibility of some more, especially of the chanter top keys and regulators. I am about to order regulators and want to lean on my pipemaker to make a similar chanter with these two top keys.

If these are the top d and e what is the long key on the side - high c# ?

John

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:24 am
by Joseph E. Smith
Yes, more pics, please, pretty pretty please.

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:58 am
by Chris Bayley
John / Joseph etc.

There are some more photo's here

http://www.chrislangan.ca/Langan_2006/index9.html

Chris

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 6:32 am
by Joseph E. Smith
Thanks Chris, and Paul. :)

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:10 am
by Paul Reid
The chanter top used was not OEM.

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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:24 am
by Chris Bayley
Long Key on the side of chanter is second octave d. The keys held by the plates at the top of the chanter are double acting keys giving third octave e and f# - the top part acts against the lower section to open the hole. An interesting spring arrangement keeps the keys together and stops them rattling.
These top keys appear on at least two other Taylor chanters - the Beattie double and also one of Ivory that has been retro fitted with post mounted keys over the open tone holes.
Chanter is a cross between a narrow bore and wide bore so possibly an early Taylor set.
Throat 3.97mm / Bell 12.7mm / O/A length 370.68mm.
Full set of measurements here
http://uilleannforum.com/forums/viewtop ... 34219d3736
Chris

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:34 am
by Paul Reid
In fact this (above) is the same chanter from which these measurements come from if they're from the Balderose set.

http://www.uilleannobsession.com/diary_ ... lorchanter

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:34 am
by Joseph E. Smith
Chris Bayley wrote:... and also one of Ivory that has been retro fitted with post mounted keys over the open tone holes.
An ivory Taylor chanter? Are there any existing (see attainable) photos of this chanter?

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:41 am
by Chris Bayley
It was described in the Pipers review a 2 maybe 3 years ago with at least one photo

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:16 am
by Jumper
Chris Bayley wrote:It was described in the Pipers review a 2 maybe 3 years ago with at least one photo
The article is in The Pipers Review Vol XXI No 1 - Winter 2002
"A Taylor Ivory Chanter"
By Wally Charm

There's also a picture of Mr. Nicholas Burke with a Taylor ivory chanter on page 280 of O'Neill's IMM.

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:32 am
by Joseph E. Smith
Thanks guys, I'll look it up in the archives. :thumbsup:

Mounting your pipes

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:54 am
by Hans-Joerg
A Kiernan/Quinn in C sold by s.b. from Kansas. There were no bellows with it but I had these Kiernan-bellows from my practise-set. The optical restoration is finished now and the functional restoration might take place next year. David wrote that it once had belonged to Al Purcell who had it chrome-plated when working for Ford in Detroit.
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