£2,800 - £3,400
Jim Tweedie (Edinburgh), silver Highland bagpipes, the drones of turned blackwood with Celtic inspired silver mounts, hallmarked Birmingham 1973, and signed to the chanter 'J Tweedie', with Gannaway large size pipe bag
NB: Tweedie made state of the art instruments in the 1970s. He was a meticulous craftsman known for the use of seasoned blackwood, seasoned for a minimum of eight years. Tweedie drones were known to produce an outstanding tone. Jim Tweedie originally turned pipes for William Sinclair and Hugh MacPherson in Leith during the 1950s and 1960s and then went on to start Inveran Bagpipe Makers in the early 1970s in Edinburgh. It still exists today in Kirkcaldy, Fife, under one of Jim's apprentices, Pipe Major Brian Donaldson
Musical instrument ivory exemption application no. SUN6ERM8
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