Repairing 19th century Conacher pipes with the original pipe maker's tools

Here are some before and after pictures of repairs carried out on a 16ft Waldhorn from the Victoria Hall, Hanley.

Originally named a Contra Fagotto, the pipes were made by Peter Conacher of Huddersfield in 1888.

During this time the pipe shop foreman was a Mr R Jackson.

By happy chance, we have quite a few of his tools in our workshop and some of them were used to repair these reeds.

It may have been this gentleman who made them originally! His name stamp can be seen on some of the pipes.