A two-year uilleann pipe-making class in Dublin is helping to preserve one of Ireland's oldest traditional instruments. The uilleann pipe-making class is part of Ballyfermot College of Further ...
Uilleann pipe makers are a rare breed, but the future is looking bright, with talk of a full-time course, writes Siobhán Long Dying breed or burgeoning art? Plaything of the chosen few or object of ...
The uilleann pipes inspire extreme reactions in listeners. Some, already resistant to piping from their experience of the much louder bagpipes, opt to keep their distance, but, once bitten by the bug, ...
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOEOdrkWN_4&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Good old Bill Ruppert posted another Effectology video showing off the creation of Uilleann pipe ...
Rob Gándara, plays for his son, Finisterre. Gándara is an engineer who designs and makes a modern version of Uilleann pipes. Irish bagpipes, or Uilleann pipes (rhymes with chillin'), are a traditional ...
What do John Lennon, "Braveheart," and UNESCO all have in common? Surprisingly, the famed Irish instrument the uilleann pipes. The traditional Irish instrument, the uilleann pipes, has received the ...
The uilleann pipes (the closest English pronunciation is "illen") have a distinctly Irish bite. We'll hear piper Christopher Layer in concert with two American symphonies. First, Layer plays the jig ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Uilleann pipes performer, composer and percussionist Dr Matthew Horsley performs an arrangement of ...
Nan Fortune and Ailiien Lambert Cáit and Bridget Sinnott with Nellie and Michael Fortune The magnificent sounds of the Uilleann Pipes filled Stamps recently as pipers from all over the county gathered ...