{"id":3227,"date":"2008-03-11T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T13:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/rockaway_the_brave.html"},"modified":"2008-03-11T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T13:49:24","slug":"rockaway_the_brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/rockaway_the_brave.html","title":{"rendered":"Rockaway The Brave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/queens\/2008\/03\/11\/2008-03-11_citys_lone_bagpipemaker_is_an_industry_o.html\">Good thing there are a lot of cops in this city<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Nate Banton &#8212; New York City&#8217;s only bagpipe maker &#8212; opened his business in a Neponsit bungalow four months ago. The 30-year-old craftsman specializes in two types of bagpipes: border pipes and small pipes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m interested in making hand-crafted pipes with an attention to detail,&#8221; said Banton, who grew up in Maine. &#8220;It&#8217;s a good business to be in. I make a product that people can make art with.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Banton, who apprenticed for three years under noted pipe maker Seth Gallagher in upstate Cold Spring, N.Y., said he had a hard time breaking into the industry. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <\/p>\n<p>Banton uses dozens of handmade tools and relies on his 1940s South Bend lathe, a hardsaw and a drill press for the bulkwork. <\/p>\n<p>A set will take roughly three weeks to complete. Banton now has a three-month waiting list for his pipes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he&#8217;s well on his way to be successful,&#8221; said Brian Bigley, 23, who shares the workspace with Banton and is working on his own design for a uilleann pipe &#8212; a traditional Irish bagpipe. &#8220;The Celtic music industry is doing really well.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good thing there are a lot of cops in this city: Nate Banton &#8212; New York City&#8217;s only bagpipe maker &#8212; opened his business in a Neponsit bungalow four months ago. The 30-year-old craftsman specializes in two types of bagpipes: border pipes and small pipes. &#8220;I&#8217;m interested in making hand-crafted pipes with an attention to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}