Who has been making pipes the longest ?
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Who has been making pipes the longest ?
Some pipemakers seem to have been around forever. The likes of David Quinn ,Geoff Wooff,Alain Froment,Alan Ginsberg and Charles Roberts have certainly been making pipes a long time. But who has been making them the longest ?
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PS I mean someone who is still making pipes
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PS I mean someone who is still making pipes
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Alan Ginsberg has been making pipes for over 35 years. David Quinn has been at at about 30 years, longer if you count NSP. Fromont, about 25 years and Wooff about 23, if memory serves me right. I am not sure about Roberts, but I think he started on NSP as well, but has not been around as long as Geoff. Peter Hunter certainly goes back aways and Pat Sky has been at it, off and on for over 30 years, I think. I am certain to be challenged about all this, but my memory is fading with age.
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First time I met D. Quinn was in 1980, he said at that time he had made 78 sets.Ted wrote:Alan Ginsberg has been making pipes for over 35 years. David Quinn has been at at about 30 years, longer if you count NSP. Fromont, about 25 years and Wooff about 23, if memory serves me right..
The first Wooff set I played was Ronnie's, in 1983, Geoff had been at it then for five or six years (remember the silver anniversary set? That was for 25 years in pipemaking). Alain was exhibiting his first sets at WCSS around 84 (give or take a year). Eugene Lambe was set up by the second half of the 70s.
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Alan Ginsberg was learning frae Matt Kiernan in '72 I think and Brian Howard was making sets in the 70s as well(I think)cos he got a medal for it back then.So that probably puts Alan Ginsberg as the longest making living pipemaker.(I think)I am not sure when Pat McNulty made his pipes I will see him tonight and ask him.(I think) I am doing a lot o thinking these days
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Mick Dooley is another pipemaker in the thirty year club.He has been making pipes since 1976 !
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Chris Bayley has now been making for 33 years; having started in 1975. Curiously enough I saw the first full set he made in 1975, only last year; a four reg Taylor style set in blackwood and brass, still looking and sounding good.
Although he started out making NSPs I believe Ray Sloan has been at it for quite a while as well.
Although he started out making NSPs I believe Ray Sloan has been at it for quite a while as well.
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