shops for trad. musical instruments in Co. Kerry wanted

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:46 am

Hello there,
friends of mine come over to the island in early March this year. Both are interested in traditional irish instruments like Uilleann pipes, whistles, bodhrans. They'll stay in the Dingle Bay near Killorglin.

Do you have any idea where they can find above mentioned things?

Best
Alex

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:30 pm

There is a shop in Dingle village that specialises in Bodhrans etc. A Bodhran Maker owns the shop. I think its called "Dingle Bodhrans".

Jim McGuire · Post by **Jim McGuire** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:58 pm

Cillian O'Briain, a pipemaker, has a shop that they can visit in Dingle. He is one shop in a Crafts 'shopping centre' for people with small businesses that need studio space, etc -artists, craftsman, etc. He will also have whistles. If he cannot supply pipes, an order can be placed or he might re-direct you to someone else.

Cillian is a great player too so they might ask when he plays in the area.

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:51 pm

My advise would be get hold of a 06 area golden pages when your friends arrive in Killorglin (where they are staying will have one )and go to "Musical Instruments"as there are loads of shops in the Kerry area .
Buskers in Tralee is very good for trad instruments of all kinds (except pipes ).There are three pipemakers in the kerry area I know of ,they are Cillian O,Brian of Dingle,Mark Donohoe in Castlemaine and Mick Dooley in Tralee
By the way Killorglin is about one hours drive from Dingle

RORY

Jim McGuire · Post by **Jim McGuire** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:04 pm

Mick Dooley's web site:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~teachanphiobaire/

maw · Post by **maw** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:11 pm

There's The Living Tradition in Cork city not too far I suppose: http://www.ossian.ie

Rick Hall · Post by **Rick Hall** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:53 pm

The bodhrán maker in Dingle is Andrea Power. Sometimes plays with Cillian O'Briain. A delightful lady.
Rick

The Sporting Pitchfork · Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:10 pm

Yeah, Andrea's very nice. Her bodhrans are pretty good...if you're into that sort of thing...

Cillian's workshop is in a complex of shops called "Ceardlann Na Coille" about 1 km or so outside of town. Just follow Strand St. out of town and it should be on the right. I had heard that Cillian had actually closed down the "shop" portion of his place and was using the entire space for pipemaking. It used to be divided in half with the pipemaking stuff in the back and a small shop in front that sold books, CDs, whistles, a few flutes, and--once in a blue moon (don't get yer hopes up)--one of his practice sets. Anyway, I haven't been back to Dingle in several years, so I don't know if he's still selling things in the shop or not. Regardless, he's a pretty friendly guy, so if your friends stopped by, he'd probably be okay with them having a look around...Don't quote me on that, though.

Be sure your friends stop by Oifig An Cheoil ("The Music Office") on Dykegate Lane. It's sometimes staffed by a real-live local musician who can answer questions, but most of the time nobody's around. They do have a schedule on their door showing what regular traditional music events are going on around town. If Cillian or Eoin Duignan are playing down at An Droichead Beag, go see them!

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:45 am

Jim McGuire wrote:Cillian O'Briain, a pipemaker, has a shop that they can visit in Dingle. He is one shop in a Crafts 'shopping centre' for people with small businesses that need studio space, etc -artists, craftsman, etc. He will also have whistles. If he cannot supply pipes, an order can be placed or he might re-direct you to someone else.

Cillian is a great player too so they might ask when he plays in the area.

Hi Jim,
thanks much for your advice. Is this the crafts shop you see first on the left when you enter the harbour coming from east??
Thanks and regards
Alex

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:50 am

The Sporting Pitchfork wrote:...

Cillian's workshop is in a complex of shops called "Ceardlann Na Coille" about 1 km or so outside of town. Just follow Strand St. out of town and it should be on the right. ...

Sorry, wrote the last post before reading your post, so...

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:47 am

Folks,
often read here about Cillian O'Briain and would like to send my friends to him, but I am not sure about his adress. In accordance to the yellowpages he would be settled in Ballyferriter. Is that correct?

Thanks and regards
Alex

PJ · Post by PJ » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:55 am

Here's a recent article about COB posted by rorybbellows. It mentions that the craft centre is being sold and COB will be setting up his workshop elsewhere.

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=37090

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:09 am

Folks,
that friend of mine came back yesterday and reported that there was nobody able to give him a link to anybody manufacturing or selling pipes. Will hear the full story soon but sounds strange.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:04 am

Alexander, here is NPU's list of pipemakers. Bear in mind that a few of them are nolonger making pipes... ie. Davy Stephenson, Dave Williams (R.I.P.)... but your friend has quite a few others to chose from here. Good luck!

http://www.pipers.ie/makerlist.asp

-JES.

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:00 am

The first question would have to be,
who did they ask ??

RORY