{"id":530,"date":"2015-01-03T22:05:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/?p=530"},"modified":"2015-01-03T23:45:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T23:45:26","slug":"dunnreid-smallpipes-refurbishment-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/2015\/01\/dunnreid-smallpipes-refurbishment-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunn\/Reid smallpipes: refurbishment part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a very interesting set of pipes that came to me last year. It&#8217;s a hybrid set; a 9 keyed James Reid chanter (~1830&#8217;s) coupled with a much earlier set (1780&#8217;s) of John Dunn drones that almost certainly started life as part of a simple unkeyed set.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-530 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/2015\/01\/dunnreid-smallpipes-refurbishment-part-1\/dronesandchanter\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/DronesAndChanter-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/2015\/01\/dunnreid-smallpipes-refurbishment-part-1\/fullset2\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/FullSet2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There are some interesting engravings on the drone sliders and also on the original stocks (of which more later). I&#8217;ve traced the set back through the 1900&#8217;s and back in to the 1800&#8217;s; this is the set of pipes illustrated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mustrad.org.uk\/pictures\/22-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">painting<\/a> which is currently on display at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morpethbagpipemuseum.org.uk\/\">Bagpipe Museum<\/a> in Morpeth. The set played in the painting includes an early blackwood Reid chanter and Reid bellows. This chanter &amp; drones became separated and formed part of another set in the early 1970&#8217;s and the drones were paired at that point with the current chanter. The chanter itself has been heavily played, snapped and long since repaired; unfortunately at some point the silver key pins have been replaced with copper wire which will prove difficult to extract.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been considering what approach to take to take with them &#8211; they&#8217;ll never be an everyday instrument but it will be great to bring such a significant set back in to full playing order. I&#8217;ll start by fitting everything to a new bag and getting the drones playing with a contemporary chanter &#8211; this should be completed shortly. Once this is done I can take a long slow look at the chanter to work out how to effect a repair that will hold the two halves together with minimal interference on the musical qualities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a very interesting set of pipes that came to me last year. It&#8217;s a hybrid set; a 9 keyed James Reid chanter (~1830&#8217;s) coupled with a much earlier set (1780&#8217;s) of John Dunn drones that almost certainly started life as part of a simple unkeyed set. There are some interesting engravings on the drone<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/2015\/01\/dunnreid-smallpipes-refurbishment-part-1\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[49,50,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}