On 14 Jun 2012, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Jenny - there's a set attributed to Robert or James Hall in Edinburgh: >Someone will no doubt be along > shortly with a list of any Hall pipes in the Bagpipe museum in Morpeth
There are about 10 Hall sets known of in total. 2 at least I believe are in private hands, with the families of those who bought them from the makers. Others are still with immediate family. There is an article about the pipemaking Halls in a back issue of the NPS magazine (about 12 years ago?), written in co-operation with local descendants. If the one in Edinburgh to which Rob refers is ivory and a relatively recent acquisition, then it changed hands at least twice before it got there. I'm not sure offhand if there is one at the Chantry museum in Morpeth, but I think it highly likely. The best person to ask might be Dr. Graham Wells who recently completed a thesis on historical Northumbrian smallpipes. Although the Halls were not the immediate focus of his attention, I suspect he would know better than most folk where the sets are. 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
