Who is Hubert Kwisthout
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Who is Hubert Kwisthout
Hi guys, there is a practice set for sale Ebay UK, but there's only three hours left, has anyone got an idea who this maker is or was or were he came from. cheers Stew.
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English pipemaker
links here:
http://www.londonpipers.co.uk/pipemakers_pg.htm
photo here:
http://www.uilleann.nl/pipes/pictureGal ... CN3938.JPG
mentioned a few times from this site:
http://www.uilleann.nl/pipes/pictureGal ... ussel2002/
listed on Thomas Johnsons' site
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46103557/anpiobaire.html
English pipemaker
links here:
http://www.londonpipers.co.uk/pipemakers_pg.htm
photo here:
http://www.uilleann.nl/pipes/pictureGal ... CN3938.JPG
mentioned a few times from this site:
http://www.uilleann.nl/pipes/pictureGal ... ussel2002/
listed on Thomas Johnsons' site
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46103557/anpiobaire.html
hubert is a Dutchman. During the early 80s (and possibly during the late seventies too) he worked for Allan Ginzberg. He has since (although on an on/off basis) been making pipes and doing repairs since. Last I heard based near Lincoln, deeply involved in Friends of the Earth and the trade in tropical woods from sustainable forests.
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Hubert Kwisthout, originally from the Netherlands I believe, started making uilleann pipes in the late seventies/early eighties in Lincoln, Lincs. Around the same time, or shortly after, as Dave Williams maybe. Dave started up in 1977/78 I think. I remember visiting Dave at his first workshop in Newark, Notts, and Dave mentioned Hubert who'd started making pipes in Lincoln and had been asking advice from Dave. I heard some time ago that Hubert moved from Lincoln in the 1990's? and went south, Wales prehaps? There was an article in An Piobaire about a Ned White set that Hubert renovated for a piper from the Netherlands. I've never heard a Kwisthout chanter so I've no idea as to the quality of his instruments.
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Peter
I saw your photograph, which I like a lot, on the May Morning Dew album, Mick O' Brien
A simalar photograph is on the obsession pages:
"Mick and Aoife O'Brien at WCSS 1990. The pipes are Robert van Dykes 'white' set. ©Peter Laban, Milltown Malbay"
I think Robert told me that Hubert Kwisthout restored the White set.
Carel
I saw your photograph, which I like a lot, on the May Morning Dew album, Mick O' Brien
A simalar photograph is on the obsession pages:
"Mick and Aoife O'Brien at WCSS 1990. The pipes are Robert van Dykes 'white' set. ©Peter Laban, Milltown Malbay"
I think Robert told me that Hubert Kwisthout restored the White set.
Carel
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Here's an address from NPU, though I think it may be out of date - I''d heard he'd left Lincoln and was possibly living in Wales. Peter mentioned an early Alan Ginsburg connection:
Hubert Kwisthout
659 Newmark Rd.
Lincoln
LN6 8SA
England
Tel.: 01522-501850
Fax: 01522-501841
Pic of a Kwisthout "full set with possible Rogge bass drone" at:
http://www.uilleann.nl/pipes/pictureGal ... CN3938.JPG
Hubert is listed August 1st 2004 as a timber merchant:
Business TypeTimber Merchant - Sawn Products
Contact Name Hubert Kwisthout
Address Line 16 Salisbury Avenue
Address Line 2PenarthCountyCardiff
AreaPost CodeCF1
Telephone Number 02920 707444
Fax Number 02920 711133
Email Address info@ecotimber.co.uk
Web Site Address www.ecotimber.co.uk
Hubert Kwisthout
659 Newmark Rd.
Lincoln
LN6 8SA
England
Tel.: 01522-501850
Fax: 01522-501841
Pic of a Kwisthout "full set with possible Rogge bass drone" at:
http://www.uilleann.nl/pipes/pictureGal ... CN3938.JPG
Hubert is listed August 1st 2004 as a timber merchant:
Business TypeTimber Merchant - Sawn Products
Contact Name Hubert Kwisthout
Address Line 16 Salisbury Avenue
Address Line 2PenarthCountyCardiff
AreaPost CodeCF1
Telephone Number 02920 707444
Fax Number 02920 711133
Email Address info@ecotimber.co.uk
Web Site Address www.ecotimber.co.uk
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I actually owned a practise set from Hubert up untill a few hours ago...... It was my first encounter with the pipes, bought from hobgoblin in Bristol september 1997. It ended on a shelf for some years, I thought it to be horrible and bought a Roberts half set. But last year someone from the danish pipers club needed a set, and we tried to get it working. It did. A new reed was all it took...... He then bought a Rogge set and I sold off the Kwisthout set today to an aspiring new piper from Copenhagen. It's playing nicely and in tune - with a reed made for my Roberts chanter!
Bottom line, get someone experienced to check what you are buying before throwing it out
Morten
- Happier than ever, with a new Williams chanter and a full Brad Angus Bb-set on its way!
Bottom line, get someone experienced to check what you are buying before throwing it out
Morten
- Happier than ever, with a new Williams chanter and a full Brad Angus Bb-set on its way!
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Ben ye can add the drones to that.There are two good reedmakers that I know of who won't touch his stuff.But to be fair I have heard an OK set or two.
By and large any uilleann pipes bought from Hobgoblin are sh*t.(they are the Pakistani sets)I was told this many years back at the London Pipers Club and I don't see any reason to change this view.Hubert used to use Hobgoblin as his outlet but I think he no longer does.
Uilliam
By and large any uilleann pipes bought from Hobgoblin are sh*t.(they are the Pakistani sets)I was told this many years back at the London Pipers Club and I don't see any reason to change this view.Hubert used to use Hobgoblin as his outlet but I think he no longer does.
Uilliam