Well I have finally made the decision to have the YDNA37 test done at Family Tree DNA.com.
AND, I have spoken with several people named Pipes who have agreed verbally to also have the test done there. Two of them are Pipes who live in England, one of them is a descendant of the William Pipes who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1774, and I am working on a Pipes who descends from Hiram Pipes. I am also working on a man named PIPE who lives in Australia currently and is a descendant of the PIPE family from ancient times in Staffordshire, England.
My Cousin Jerry Pipes has done a Y-DNA12 test a few years ago at FTDNA and it is posted there. There is also a descendant of Windsor Pipes who has a YDNA37 or 67 test done and posted.
I am currently planning on using the Piper Surname Project as a place to compare our DNA when it is all taken and analyzed. We may start our own surname project in the future.
You can see the results page here. There are currently two Pipes results posted.
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/piper/resultsPlease contact me if your last name is Pipes or Pipe and you are interested in participating.
It seems very likely to me that the Pipes name derived from the Pipe name in the 15th Century in central England. Maybe we can prove it, I don't know for sure.
Bob Pipes
pipesb@pipesfamily.com