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Greetings, fellow pipers!

I have not been able to submit to the Digest from my E-mail of late;
this posting form is really helpful.  Someone recently mentioned
acquiring a Korean brass and bamboo pipe. I got one of those a couple
months ago at a local Oriental grocery. It is 2 feet long, and cost
the princely sum of $14.95! For such a low price, it's a great smoke,
and the tobacco burns completely, probably since the brass bowl gets
so hot.  I also paid $60 for an antique German-style pipe a few weeks
ago. The bowl is octagonal and is either meerschaum or some other kind
of clay, and has a lid. Under the bowl is a socket that collects a
murky liquid that is probably all the nicotine etc. There is a
slightly flexible tube between the socket and stem, and the stem
itself is horn.The socket and some other fittings are made of a
close-grained wood (cocobolo, I think) that is most commonly used to
make clarinets, and I already mentioned the horn stem.There is
probably rubber in the flexible part, but I don't think that any of
the parts are synthetic. It smokes drier than my Peterson, because of
the socket, and just looks cool. (If you've got the LP of "This Was"
by Jethro Tull, the guy on the extreme left seems to be holding a
similar pipe.)  -Tim

The Truth is five, but men only have one name for it. 
-Patamunzo Lingananda
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