For sale due to my lack of time to do them justice! Made by Burleigh, a good solid set of Northumbrian bagpipes. It's a 17 key set with four drones with tuning beads. Fully airtight bag and bellows. Comes with an excellent collection of almost every book published in the Northumbrian tradition.

According to Burleigh's records, this is a F+ set (meaning that the pitch of the instrument is about 20 cents sharp of F natural) but the reed I have going in it is sitting very sweetly at spot on F.

The chanter is free of leaks and squeaks and is in good condition. Keys are all working, comfortable, and airtight. The drones are well set up, although a couple of reeds require fettling.

The books included are:

Northumbrian Smallpipes Tutor (John Liestman)
Basic Northumbrian Smallpipes Tutor (Richard Butler)
Northumbrian Pipers Tunebook (3rd Ed.)
Northumbrian Piper's Second Tunebook
Northumbrian Piper's Third Tune Book
The Clough Family of Newsham
Northumbrian Piper's Pocket Books (green and yellow)
The Border Minstrel - Billy Pigg
A Repertoire of Variations
Smallpipe tunes from the Northumbrian Minstrelsy
Peacock's Tunes
Northumbrian Piper's Duet Book
The Charlton Memorial Tunebook
Pipe Tunes from the Jack Armstrong Collection
Sounds Northumbrian (Roy Hugman)

And all-importantly, Richard Butler's Handbook for the Northumbrian pipes.

My camera is not brilliant - I have larger photos I can email, but they are not really much better. I'm more than happy for serious enquirers to come and inspect them and hear them in operation, however.

More info on the NSP can be found at http://www.nspipes.co.uk/nsp/

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