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8 5 23 20121206 23 —: The Road to Lough Swilly. Archival recording housed at the CMC, 2003. Kelly, Elaine: Contemporary Music Project: Gerry Murphy (BA (Mus) 4th Year Paper). Water- ford: Waterford Institute of Technology, n.d. Lennon, Charlie: Island Wedding. RTÉ CD 145. 1991. Compact Disc. —: Deora an Deoraí/The emigrant suite. CEF 112. 1985. Cassette. Martin, Neil: No Tongue Can Tell. Unpublished score, 2003. McCandless, Brian E.: Historical Links among Pastoral, Union and Uillean [sic] Bagpipes. Maryland: Self Published, 2005. McClellan, Robinson: “Flight of the Earls: Con- certo for Uilleann Pipes.” Sibelius Music. 2007. http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/index.php?sm= home.score&scoreID=127136 (accessed May 14, 2010). Mitchell, Pat: The Dance Music of Willie Clancy, Dublin: Na Píobairí Uilleann, 1976 —: The Dance Music of Séamus Ennis. Dublin: Na Píobairí Uilleann, 2007. Mitchell, Pat & Small, Jackie: The Piping of Patsy Touhey, Dublin: Na Píobairí Uilleann, 1986. Moylan, Terry: Ceol an Phíobaire, Dublin: Na Píobairí Uilleann, 1981. 2nd ed. 2012 Murphy, Gerry: Dialects. Ballavarra Music Ltd, 1993-1994. —: “Dialects.” Music from Six Continents. VMM 3040. 1997. Compact Disc. O’Farrell: National Irish Music for the Union Pipes. 1801. Pedro Rebelo’s Official Website. http://www.so- masa.qub.ac.uk/~prebelo/index/ (accessed No- vember 15, 2011). Potts, Seán Óg: Mad for Trad - Uilleann Pipes CD- ROM Tutorial. CD-ROM. Produced by Mad- forTrad.com. Performed by Seán Óg Potts. 2005. Roger Doyle's Official Web site. http://www.roger- doyle.com (accessed June 14, 2010). Ronan Guilfoyle’s Official Web site. http://www.ronanguilfoyle.com/ Accessed 15/06/10 (accessed June 15, 2010). Townsend, Declan: Songs of Farewell. Unpub- lished score housed at the CMC, 1989. Whelan, Bill: Riverdance. Dublin: McGuinness/Whelan Music and RTE Music Ltd, 1995. Dr. Dave Flynn is a composer, musician and academic from Dublin, now based in Clare. This article is based upon elements of his PhD Dissertation Traditional Irish Music: A Path to New Music (Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, 2010). PIPEMAKING HOLIDAY WITH RAY SLOAN R AY SLOAN picked Barry Shears (from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) and I up the morning after Donegal won the Gaelic Football League Championship. The streets were weirdly vacant and you would have thought the zombie apocalypse had happened. The good people of Donegal were nursing their hangovers as tenderly as new mothers, no doubt. It was definitely the morning after the day before. The wind blew, the rain fell, and we began turning a stick into a chanter. If I could distil a whiskey it would smell like the shop where Ray Sloan makes his pipes: freshly turned wood, machine grease, hints of hot electrical motor and glue, leather, salt wind, stone wall, with a wet dog finish. I have met pipemakers who love to chit-chat and gossip. Ray is not one of these. We got right down to it. Handing us each a block of African black- wood Ray said, “Right. Here’s your chanter.” Until that moment I had never worked on a lathe. The difference between a wood lathe and a machine lathe was still a little foggy to me. Blanks of blackwood, their ends waxed, were stacked on shelves along with logs of more mysterious wood, as well as chunks of box-

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