3-drone set
olive wood with
blackwood mounts
key: A/E
3-drone set
3-drone set
3-drone set
'Loison' bellows set
bellows: Mahogany
pipes: lemon wood
key: G/D

SOLD (France)
'Loison' set
'Loison' set
'Loison' set
brass key detail
'Loison' bellows
'Loison' bellows
top
'Loison' bellows
bottom
'Suppo' set
olive wood
key: G/D and A/E

SOLD (Italy)
'Raurich' chanter
Cocobolo (Mexican Rosewood)
key: D/G

SOLD (Catalonia, Spain)
'Raurich' chanter
brass key detail
'Piraux' set
cherry wood
key: A/E

SOLD (Belgium)
'Piraux' set
'Penn' set
mesquite wood
key: G/D

SOLD (USA)

 Penn full set
'Penn' set
 Penn full set
'Penn' set
 Penn full set
'Penn' set
 Penn bell detail
'Gerardin' set
cherry wood
key: A/E

hear this set

SOLD (Canada)
'Gerardin' chanter
cherry wood
key: A/E

'Blum' set
plum wood
key: A/E

SOLD (Belgium)
'Blum' set

'Pritchitt' set
Honduran rosewood with
brass E key
key: D/G

SOLD (USA)
'Pritchitt' set
'Pritchitt' Chanter
'Pritchitt' Drone
'Holt' chanter and bass drone
domestic holly wood with
blackwood mounts
key:D/G

SOLD (USA)
'Holt' set

'Nelson' set
olive wood
key: A/E

SOLD (USA)
Nelson fullset
'Nelson' set
Nelson parts

'Nowotnik' chanter & drone
olive wood
key: A/E

view on YouTube

SOLD (Australia)

"Klunk" set
Honduran rosewood
with maple mounts
key: A

SOLD (USA)

'Fuchs' Chanters
rosewood and cherry
wood with adapter
key: D/G

SOLD (France)

'Hutchison' set
cherry wood
key: A/E

SOLD (Netherlands)
"Hutchison"set
"Hutchison" set

'Shipp' set
cherry wood
key: A

hear this chanter

SOLD (Japan)

Chanter reed

 

made by Boris Favre

Vancouver, BC

xbf@telus.net

 



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March, 2008

This year's Vancouver Celtic Festival hosted an event called "Swarm of Drones". It featured various bagpipes from Western Europe and the Britsh Isles and I was kindly invited to display some of my Swedish and Irish pipes for the occasion. Sharing the display kiosk are Scottish Small Pipes maker Robin Beck and organizer Rob MacDonald.

Boris giving a sackpipa
demonstration

Scottish small pipes maker
Robin Beck peeks at the camera

Rob MacDonald playing his
Northumbrian Small Pipes

tweaking a reed





In the workshop

The following images show a drone stock being made for a Swedish bagpipe. This is the first lathe that I ever owned, a King hobby lathe. I currently use a Teknatool NOVA 1624-44 with the bed extension.


boring the wood

the wood is shaped
using a chisel

applying walnut oil

a finished cherrywood stock

the rest of the set