I hope you find what you are looking for on these pages and please feel free to Contact me with any questions regarding either the Irish Uilleann Pipes or Scottish Smallpipes.
My styles, methods and practices have been developed and well-honed over nearly 30 years of pipe-making experience; I can therefore guarantee that every set of Irish Uilleann Pipes or Scottish Smallpipes I make will be fully in tune and properly adjusted to all of the expected norms of playing these instruments.
If you go to my Uilleann Pipes page and click on the picture of the full set of Uilleann Pipes this will take you through to my Irish Pipes 'picture gallery' showing you many images of my Pipes. You will find I make two styles, both 'Standard' and 'Fully Mounted' and I hope that the pictures will illustrate the differences. One thing which I must emphasise is that the differences are purely stylistic, which means that regardless of the style you choose to buy you will always receive a set of Pipes that will play well, and that are fully tuned ready to play out-of-the-box. If you have any queries regarding the differences in style, or indeed anything else, again, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
You will equally find many pictures of my Scottish Smallpipes by clicking 'Scottish Smallpipes' above and there you will find pictures illustrating the different styles of Smallpipes that are available for you to purchase. If you want to listen to sound samples of either the Irish Uilleann Pipes or the Scottish Smallpipes you will find these on the appropriate 'Sound Samples' page.
By going to my 'Uilleann Pipes' page you will also find advice on buying Irish Pipes, kindly published here with permission of the Irish Pipers Club of Dublin - An Piobairi Uilleann and Piper Martin Nolan. In addition you will find other items of general Uilleann Piping interest such as a list of Irish piping events and classes, which I will attempt to keep up-to-date. On my 'Links' page you will find there links to a variety of websites dedicated to Irish Uilleann Piping interest as well as Scottish Smallpipes.
Thank you for visiting.
Ray Sloan.