Hamish Moore
www.hamishmoore.com
Maker of high quality Scottish Smallpipes, Highland Bagpipes, Border and Reel pipes.
Hamish Moore, Fungarth Steading, Dunkeld, Perthshire PH8 0ES, Scotland, UK * email hamishmoore@musicscotland.com * tel +[44] (0)1350 728 838
 

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The Piper And The MakerThe Piper And The Maker
This unique piping concert featuring top Scottish pipers playing Hamish Moore pipes, is now available on CD from Greentrax Recordings at MusicScotland. The concert took place at Pitlochry Town Hall, Perthshire, on 31st October 2003 and featured pipers on the recording include:

MARTYN BENNETT * GORDON DUNCAN * FIN MOORE * ALLAN MacDONALD * IAIN MacDONALD * ANGUS MacKENZIE * IAIN MacINNES * MALCOLM ROBERTSON * GARY WEST * HAMISH MOORE * ANNA MURRAY * GRAHAM MULHOLLAND

Anna Murray, Martyn Bennett and Graham Mulholland were unable to take part in the concert and were recorded at other locations.

Maeve De Hetre is organising a teaching week at her beautiful log home in Florida. Dates from 23 - 27th February 2004. Tutor for the week is Fin Moore. For further information, please contact Maeve on terride@sanctum.com

Hamish Moore's new pipe band, Na Tri Seudan is up and running and willing, able and ready for gigs. A show with Na Tri Seudan includes dance music from the pipe band, stepdance and pibroch both played and sung. Hamish has just been awarded a grant from The Scottish Arts Council to make 8 matched silver mounted sets of pipes for the band. These pipes are his Highland Pipes in 'A' and are a reproduction of the 1785 set in The Inverness Museum.

Na Tri Seudan and Dannsa are combining forces to play a concert in St Andrews Square in Glasgow. This has been organised by Tom Lawrie and will take place on 29th November 2003.
Dannsa Teaching weekend - Kingussie 14 - 16th November. This is being organised by Sandra Robertson, tel. 01540 661594.

On 14th August 2003 the business became a Partnership and the new name is Hamish and Fin Moore. Andrea Cox is now working with Hamish and Fin on the administrative side.

stolen bagpipesStolen Bagpipes Alert!

In an unfortunate incident on the evening of 11th January 2003, a set of Scottish Small Pipes and a set of Border Pipes (both made by Hamish Moore) were stolen from outside Sandy Bell's Bar in Forest Hill Lane, Edinburgh (near to the Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street).

As you can imagine the sense of loss is profound and any help in their recovery would be greatly appreciated.

Description of the Pipes, Chanters, Bellows and Case:

Small Pipes:
Made from Boxwood (a golden coloured wood) with gold plated ferrules and cocobolo (an almost black coloured wood but with a deep red tinge) mounts. Although these pipes were not marked with the maker's name they have the hall mark of Hamish Moore Pipes - ie the distinctive three steps between the upper narrow part of the drone and the larger diameter section which houses the tunung slide. The pipes have four drones set in a common stock, and a dark green velvet bag cover over a black hide bag.

Small Pipe chanters:
The A is made of African Blackwood and has a Boxwood mount. The D is made of Lignum Vitae (a dark green wood ) with a cocobolo mount.

stolen bagpipesBorder Pipes:
Made from Boxwood with gold plated ferrules and cocobolo mounts. The boxwood on this set of pipes was 'flamed' (having a randomly spiralling grain) making the pipes particularly distinctive. The design of these pipes is copied from the Bryson and Cox drawings dated circa 1740. These pipes have a green suede bag, and no bag cover.

Bellows:
One set of bellows were contained in the case. Made of American Cherry wood with a boxwood inlay these bellows have highly ornate gold-plated plates to hold the leather hinges, arm and waist straps in place. All screws are ornately engraved and both the buckles and the main hinge plate have the name 'Moore' engraved on them. The leather is a particularly attractive 'ox blood' colour.

Highland Chanters:
One black (either Ebony or African Black Wood) Highland Pipe chanter with the maker's name 'Lawrie' marked on the neck. A silver sole with engraved thistle was also contained in the case. Also a Blackwood Highland chanter with the maker's name 'Shepherd' marked on the neck (no silver mount).

Case:
A plain black carrying case. Dimensions: length 23 inches, depth 5 inches, width 11 inches.

The attached photo (top) was taken by Neil Fordyce, Dunkeld.
 

Orders can be placed by letter, email, phone or in person (our fax number is no longer available). A deposit of £150 is required at the time of ordering and this can be paid in cash, by cheque, by sterling draft or by Visa. It is advised that Visa numbers be dictated over the phone rather than emailed. There is a surcharge of £25 on final payment of pipes if paying by Visa or Mastercard. UK Customs and Excise - pipes being returned from overseas for re-reeding, repair, retuning or refurbishment: it should be stated boldly and clearly on the outside of the package that the pipes will be returned to their owner as soon as the work has been carried out. This is very important to avoid the charging of import duties, and weeks of delay at UK Customs and Excise. See other notes for owners and prospective buyers.

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