All of our pipes are hand made and numbered with personal attention to detail. These great pipes have a bright, refined tone, and they are steady as well as easy to reed. The bass drone is loosely based on a turn- of-the-century Henderson system. You will notice a particularly large bushing in the top, which gives it a bright, overtone rich, strong presence. The tenors are based on a MacDougall tenor bore, and are closely related to the Robertson bore design of the late 40’s early 50’s. They have a very “unified” spacious ringing tonal quality when they are well reeded. The reed seats are wide enough to accommodate the modern synthetic drone reeds. These drones are steady!

The bores are responsible for 90% or more of the tone of an instrument. We now use the latest in gun drill technology for our bores. This tooling yields a straight, highly polished and very consistent bore which is beautiful to look at.

Side note: It is also an arguable point as to whether there is any correlation between smoothness of bore and tonal quality. There actually is a strong argument in favor the slightly rough bore. One of current theories of hull design for racing boats says that a rough surfaced hull slips more easily through the water. And furthermore, why are golf balls dimpled? Because they go faster through the air? However most pipers like to look down the bores of a set of pipes to see how smooth they are, and ours are smooth!