SOLD – Robert McKinnon was a leading piper in the 1870s and 80s. He published a book of music in a time when this was a rare thing, and he made bagpipes from 1875 to 1902.

This ebony set probably dates from the 1890s.  The set was stripped and refinished. The badly split bass bottom was replaced with an ebony replica, keeping the original mounts. The blowpipe is also a replica: poly-lined blackwood with a matching imitation ivory mount. The blowstick stock is a poly replica.

Cracks were fixed in the tenor tuning pins and hemp stops were added to the drones.

Though MacKinnon was a Glasgow maker, these pipes displayed more of an Edinburgh tone:  subdued, steady. The tenors tune quite low on the tuning pins, and as such it would be a particularly good bagpipe to play in Bb.

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As shown, sticks and stocks only
CAD $3,850 plus shipping

Set up to play by Jim McGillivray with Ross or Bannatyne bag, polypenco chanter of choice, Ezeedrone drone reeds, Highland Gear bag cover, plain coloured silk drone cords, plastic chanter cap. (To add Ross or Bannatyne Canister system and Ross valve/watertrap, add CAD $165) (For an African Blackwood chanter instead of polypenco, request add-on price.)
CAD $4,595 plus shipping