SOLD – This flat-combed bagpipe is a bit of a puzzle. For all intents and purposes it is a button-mount Lawrie, but the wood may well be Amercian rosewood, and there are no other known Lawries made of this wood. However, it may also be particularly rich-coloured cocobola, which would be more in keeping with pipemaking.

The ferrules are nickel and the ring caps are imitation ivory which replaced orange catalin at some point in the past.

The pipes are in excellent shape, with a full (but not booming) and quite warm tone that locked in nicely with my Kinnaird Edge drone reeds. The pipes are slightly lighter in weight than a blackwood set.

This resilient little number would make an excellent starter pipe, or a work-a-day, foul weather or travel set.