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She certainly was taught by Lucy, who contributed a great deal to those of us in Cambridge getting to grips with the pipes in the early 2000s. I was in the Royal Standard pub the night that Grace first noticed Lucy playing the pipes and stood transfixed (she must have been about six years old at the...

The great man has posted on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1072255083 (Go there for pictures) *Serious offers of Euro 10,000 and over please... Dennis Crowley pipes with Rowesome chanter. This is the set I played from 1966, in the Bothy Band, and on all of my recordings u...

Andy Faden makes an Eb chanter. I played one in his workshop and it was good.

Some good solo piping: Robbie Hannan's "Traditional Music Played On The Uilleann Pipes" Mick O'Brien "The May Morning Dew" Brian McNamara "A Piper's Dream" David Power "The 18 Moloney" Kieran O'Hare's eponymous solo album Ennis/Clancy if you want the older gen...

I've been for the past three years. It's fantastic. Lots of adults in the classes. Self grading on the first day ("Who calls themselves a beginner?") and then the usual sort of thing where you learn tunes and the technique to go with them. The tutors switch around a bit between groups. Wha...

The "usual" setting of Salve Regina (DFABA...) works quite well as an air on the pipes.

Have you had a look at asking prices here?

http://www.uilleannobsession.com/classifieds.html

Andy Faden makes a fine Eb chanter. I suspect logistics are against you, but it might be worth getting on touch with him?

Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn gives Skype lessons (or at least he did in November 2015). http://www.tiarnan.ie/ I can attest that he's a good teacher having had a class with him at the WPKF in Armagh last November. Someone in the same group had previously taken a Skype lesson with Tiarnán and had good things...

You could do a lot worse than starting here:

http://www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/tunes.p ... nTunes.pdf