On 25 Oct 2010, [email protected] wrote: > Jim Grieve was a civil servant who?travelled abroad alot
<etc> Thanks, Steve. That helps a lot. There is an obit in the NPS mag vol 11, 1990. I therefore presume he died somewhere between very late 1988 and early 1990. The obit. states his home town to be Edinburgh, which was the centre of his Boys Brigade activity. There is not much reference to his actual piping (the writer knew him through Scottish country dance), except that he was a Scottish piper first. It does however give a link to well-known local clog dancer Shona Harper who is said to have his Northumbrian pipes, and her brother Andrew, a half-long player. >a memorable night it was with Adrian and Pauline being the stars. His > This would be around 1980/81. I suspect nearer 1985 since Adrian only started piping in 1981. > the Half Longs?Jim did > tell me they had belonged to Anthony Charlton. They were unusual in that the > drone > standing parts??had chased silver overlays. They are of Robertsons > manufacture and > are revived half longs from the 1930s This must be a different set to the ones that Jim McG has bought, which have two tenor drones and a bass, not the aberrent arrangement of the half-longs (and they are a very elegant design). It is possible that Andrew Harper's half-longs are Jim Grieve's set? JIm Richmond or Jock Agnew might know - or this info might be in Dennis Dunn's papers, now at the Chantry museum. > Anthony Charlton > was I belive a publican, primarily a highland piper Correct - but no immediate relation of the Charltons of Hesleyside or with Forster Charlton's family. At one time he was at Boulmer (see photo in NPS mag about 2-3 years ago), then later at Wark, although there were several in between - I can look it up if it is important. > I can remember trying a set of his > Northumbrian pipes which were at least partly made by Jim Bryan His time involved in the NPS was roughly contemporaneous with that of Jim Bryan so this is extremely probable. I seem to recall being shown this set by Andrew H bwhen he was on the committee briefly about 10-12 years ago, now that I think of it, in which case its probably not the one in the ebay sale. I hope this helps JUlia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
