'Blum' set
plum wood
key: A/E

SOLD (Belgium)
'Blum' parts

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

SOLD (USA)
'Pritchitt' parts
'Pritchitt' Chanter detail

'Pritchitt' Drone detail
'Gerardin' set
cherry wood
key: A/E

hear this set

SOLD (Canada)
'Holt' chanter and bass drone
domestic holly wood with
blackwood mounts
key:D/G

SOLD (USA)
'Holt' parts
'Holt' key detail
'Holt' bellows stocks
Holt stocks

'Nelson' set
olive wood
key: A/E

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

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

view on YouTube

SOLD (Australia)
'Nowotnik' blowpipe & stocks
Personal set
Honduran rosewood
with maple mounts
key: A

 

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

SOLD (France)

'Hutchison' set
cherry wood
key: A/E

SOLD (Netherlands)
"Hutchison" parts

'Shipp' set
cherry wood
key: A

hear this chanter

SOLD (Japan)

Chanter reed

 

made by Boris Favre

Vancouver, BC

xbf@telus.net

 


September 2009

Radio-Canada (CBC) invited me into their studios for an interview about my pipes and pipe=making. It was aired on national television and has since been archived on the CBC's website. Click on the link to view the full interview (in french):
"C'est Ca La Vie" TV broadcast





May 2009

This article was published in L'Express Du Pacifique, British Columbia's Francophone newspaper: Click on the image to enlarge:
l'Express du Pacifique article





July 2008

Radio-Canada (CBC) invited me into their studios for an interview about my pipes and pipe=making. It was aired on national radio and has since been archived on the CBC's website. Click on the link to hear the full interview (in french):
CBC Radio interview





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.

A sackpipa demonstration

Robin Beck peeks at the camera

Rob MacDonald playing his
Northumbrian Small Pipes

My "station"