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Hall, Robert

1813-1895

bagpipe maker, also a piper (or vv.) (&c.), mentioned by name

Born in Brandon Hillhead [N of Powburn]; Originally a shoemaker at West Hedgeley, he started to make bagpipes "years before" 1856, when his son James was born.

Instrument: Northumbrian smallpipes

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northumbrianpipers.org.uk (p.9ff)