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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brendan McKinney crossed the Atlantic twice. He spent thousands of dollars. And he did it for a set of uilleann (pronounced ILL-in) pipes, a form of bagpipe. “I call the uilleann pipes the Celtic ...

There is perhaps no sound so recognizable as the first drone of a bagpipe. That sustained note acts as harmony to the melody, which is fingered by the piper on the chanter. These days, bagpipes are ...

THE late great Seamus Ennis was referred to as the ‘God of uilleann pipes,’ for his ability and talent at playing this beautiful but difficult instrument. And if Martin Preshaw isn't yet the god of ...

I once heard an awful joke about the bagpipes: they aren’t a musical instrument; they’re a breathalyser. Blow into them, and if the sound that comes out doesn’t make you want to kill yourself, you ...

The vibrant skirl of pipe music echoed throughout the Vacaville Town Square Library on a stormy Thursday. Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Irish uilleann pipe musician, David Winter of Berkeley ...

A look through the best of Davy Spillane albums on the low whistle and uilleann pipes from "Eastwind" to "Out of Air." I consider myself very fortunate that we were brought up in South Dublin; just ...

Bagpipes: You either love ‘em or you hate ‘em. But even among the instrument ’s diehard defenders, most wouldn’t spend years ...

Fermoy-native Uilleann Pipe master David Hegarty tells Dónal Nolan of the instrument's timeless appeal and its extraordinary heritage in the southwest David Hegarty playing his beloved Uilleann Pipes, ...