Super cool, thanks for sharing. To me, the old Taylor sets are the most innovative instruments I have seen. And I know the bright Rowesome sound is popular, but I almost prefer the slightly more flat Taylor sound. Great playing too.
Great to hear about this set Patrick and to hear them been played. I didn't know there were only two drones. Imagine though getting run over by a truck whilst carrying your Taylor set.
I wish I could play them better. The weight is very distracting and the playing position would need a lot of tweaking over more time than I had to play them more comfortably without hitting regulator keys I didn’t want to, among other things. For playability reasons I’d probably end up keeping the double bass regulator off the set... but then again, with more time it would be fun to figure it out further.
@@PDarcy Aye, I can imagine. I got my 3/4 Williams set back in July 2020 with a bass regulator by David Lim, and I'm still getting used to the regulator bass bar over my left elbow, and having just three regulators to manage. All the best!
Hi Patrick, Thank you for appreciating the pipes. They're a lapful alright. I'm starting with two regulators and working up. I use a strap but I think more important I need a bag with a stock tied in lower. Benedict didn't try to undo the past monkeying with the toneholes - evidently the Taylors had made the chanter a bit flat, and James Scanlon played in a trio with a piano I believe so he may have been the one who took this step. They're in concert pitch now, but the chanter has tuning and intonation faults. There's a small pipe for a second tenor drone, which has been plugged up. Also, Jeremy, those were other pipes I showed on that piper Sunday, a slightly more elaborate Taylor set (!).
Thank you for this video. Very enjoyable, I hope others with historic pipes take inspiration and post their own videos. The double bass regulator seems counterintuitive, being above the tenor?
It is in a way. It is also upside down so the Taylor’s invented an ingenious cantilever system so they could be played in the same order as the rest of the regulators. Hard to explain but remarkable ingenuity.
Nice piece Patrick and nice piece on the piece. Allot of pieces going on here. Love your take on the bass notes. Dom, de dom. Great story.
Thank you Patrick!
a work of art
Super cool, thanks for sharing. To me, the old Taylor sets are the most innovative instruments I have seen. And I know the bright Rowesome sound is popular, but I almost prefer the slightly more flat Taylor sound. Great playing too.
Great to hear about this set Patrick and to hear them been played. I didn't know there were only two drones. Imagine though getting run over by a truck whilst carrying your Taylor set.
I wish I could play them better. The weight is very distracting and the playing position would need a lot of tweaking over more time than I had to play them more comfortably without hitting regulator keys I didn’t want to, among other things. For playability reasons I’d probably end up keeping the double bass regulator off the set... but then again, with more time it would be fun to figure it out further.
@@PDarcy Aye, I can imagine. I got my 3/4 Williams set back in July 2020 with a bass regulator by David Lim, and I'm still getting used to the regulator bass bar over my left elbow, and having just three regulators to manage. All the best!
Thanks for posting! I about fainted when Barry showed this set during his piper Sunday chat. (At least I think it was this set)
Yes, it was this set. As you can tell I was smitten.
Hi Patrick, Thank you for appreciating the pipes. They're a lapful alright. I'm starting with two regulators and working up. I use a strap but I think more important I need a bag with a stock tied in lower.
Benedict didn't try to undo the past monkeying with the toneholes - evidently the Taylors had made the chanter a bit flat, and James Scanlon played in a trio with a piano I believe so he may have been the one who took this step. They're in concert pitch now, but the chanter has tuning and intonation faults. There's a small pipe for a second tenor drone, which has been plugged up. Also, Jeremy, those were other pipes I showed on that piper Sunday, a slightly more elaborate Taylor set (!).
@@barryoneill9920 HO WA! Two Taylor sets...or do you havee more than two?
Thank you for this video. Very enjoyable, I hope others with historic pipes take inspiration and post their own videos. The double bass regulator seems counterintuitive, being above the tenor?
It is in a way. It is also upside down so the Taylor’s invented an ingenious cantilever system so they could be played in the same order as the rest of the regulators. Hard to explain but remarkable ingenuity.