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  • And this is Jerry O'Sullivan giving us some jigs on the uillean pipe.

    A Little Rock'n'Roll with our Elevenses John 2008

  • The sound is strikingly similar to the uillean pipes!

    OpEdNews - Diary: Something in a Name 2009

  • They say appreciation of this instrument is an acquired taste, but I can feel it and I know it is the same feeling that calliopes evoked in me long before I had even heard of uillean pipes.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Something in a Name 2009

  • There are always fiddlers, and this past Sunday there were also several flute players, an uillean piper

    Baristanet 2010

  • Guitarist Keith Reins has a pleasantly weathered, reedy voice; Brad Pouleson (mandolin, whistles, uillean pipes) offers a clear tenor; and fiddler Tara Dutcher applies her lovely, bell-toned voice to a pair of beauties; Joe Dutcher (bodhran) supplies steady rhythmic propulsion.

    press-citizen.com - SPORTS 2010

  • I played Bagpipes in two separate pipe bands in Dublin - anecdote: in school, a music teacher was evaluating our playing of the tin whistle, and when he came to me, he saw immediately from the way I was holding it that I had training in a "pipe" instrument (uillean pipes and bag pipes are fingered similarly).

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • Recorded voice (apparently of Queen Elizabeth) leads to jangling acoustic guitar and uillean pipes.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2009

  • The guest artists include Mary Mitchell-Ingoldsby on uillean pipes and Aoife Granville on flute, fiddle and voice.

    The Appalachian 2008

  • Today at 7 p.m. in the recital hall at Broyhill, Mitchell-Ingoldsby will lead a uillean pipes workshop.

    The Appalachian 2008

  • But I saw the other thing which was fuckin awesome. uillean pipes kick ass. paragraph cohesion is for pussies.

    tabe620 Diary Entry tabe620 2006

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