{"product_id":"1960s-r-g-hardie-great-highland-bagpipes","title":"Hardie Blackwood \u0026 Catalin Great Highland Bagpipes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA full set of Great Highland bagpipes in African blackwood, with catalin ferrules and mounts and copper inner rings, believed to date from the late 1950s or early 1960s. The catalin has taken on the warm honey tone these develop with age. The maker and vintage were confirmed by Rick Pettigrew of J. Dunbar Bagpipe Maker in Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA War-Mac chanter is included. That name comes from a partnership between the reed and chanter innovator James Warnock and the Shotts and Dykehead pipe majors Tom and John K. McAllister, and the first grey Polypenco chanters reached the market in the mid-1970s, so this one is a later addition to the set rather than original to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition is honest working condition. There is a crack in the wood of the blowpipe stock, and the bag may be leaking somewhere near the zipper, so a new bag \/ repair should be factored in. Otherwise it shows the normal wear of a set that has been played.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eR. G. Hardie and Co. was founded in 1950 by Robert Gavin Hardie, a championship-winning piper who trained under the Glasgow makers Robert Reid and Piobmor, working out of a garden shed in Bishopbriggs near Glasgow. The firm went on to buy James Robertson's Edinburgh bagpipe works in 1966 and to merge with Peter Henderson Bagpipes in 1973. Hardie pipes enjoyed great popularity through the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s; his chanters took multiple World Championships in that period, and the firm held a contract to supply the British Army. Sets from these decades are the ones collectors and players look for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Irish Flute Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274755551458,"sku":"aqdZNzND-DIMOce8f","price":1299.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2140\/2331\/files\/1Q7A9713.jpg?v=1788542895","url":"https:\/\/www.irishflutestore.com\/products\/1960s-r-g-hardie-great-highland-bagpipes","provider":"Irish Flute Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}