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**Altenberg Bagpiper** · 04-23-2014, 09:54 AM

Re: Kron Heritage by Atherton

Great pipes. I have the last set he made at Kron and they are a work of art. Nice big bass sound and they are very steady.

**Greenpipe** · 04-23-2014, 11:44 AM

Re: Kron Heritage by Atherton

I have a half silver set from march 2006, at which time I believe Atherton was still with Kron. Excellent craftsmanship. Wonderful sound. I found them a bit heavy for all the standing around the band has to do, and lent them to my daughter.

**Shawn Husk** · 04-23-2014, 12:15 PM

Re: Kron Heritage by Atherton

I had a set of half silvers engraved by the late Malcolm Dowie. Acorn and Oak pattern. They were fantastic in every way. 100% made by Dave (he told me). Steady as a rock, big Henderson-esque sound, completely reliable.

I had searched dozens and dozens of sets of pipes looking for THAT sound before I was happy. I settled on these which replaced a very fine set of full ivory ebony Naills from 1985 which I had played for 6 years. I played the Kron set for another 6 or 7 years until I found my dream set: 1905 ebony Lawries.

Great great pipes. You can't go wrong.

**bstodg** · 04-23-2014, 05:41 PM

Re: Kron Heritage by Atherton

Be careful, though. Some earlier versions of Kron's (and Atherton's) standard, Glen bore based pipes are being sold occasionally as Heritage models (Henderson based). The earlier version has four combs on the tenor lower sections, and the Heritage has five. So if you're looking for a Heritage model with the Henderson sound, you might be disappointed with the Glen based model.

-Burt

**ralph** · 04-23-2014, 07:47 PM

Re: Kron Heritage by Atherton

My Kron Heritage set had the 5 combs... Not a lot of pipes out that have that. Ralph Drew

**bstodg** · 04-23-2014, 10:16 PM

Re: Kron Heritage by Atherton

Sorry, not combs, but beads. Just keeping terminology straight.

**Patrick McLaurin** · 04-24-2014, 08:02 AM

Re: Kron Heritage by Atherton

Originally posted by bstodg View Post

Be careful, though. Some earlier versions of Kron's (and Atherton's) standard, Glen bore based pipes are being sold occasionally as Heritage models (Henderson based). The earlier version has four combs on the tenor lower sections, and the Heritage has five. So if you're looking for a Heritage model with the Henderson sound, you might be disappointed with the Glen based model.

-Burt

I've looked around the archive site at cekron.com and see some evidence for this, but some evidence against it.

Kron Standard with 5 beads on the tenor bottoms:

pinkivory

http://www.cekron.com/archive/pinkivory.htm

The top picture on the heritage site has a tenor bottom with 6 beads (but the very next picture down on the page, on the left side has 5 beads):

The Heritage

http://www.cekron.com/archive/heritage.htm