Watch: “The Tools of an Uilleann Pipe-Maker”

By CRAFTSMANSHIP MAGAZINE

In this short audio slideshow, John Butler demonstrates some of the tools and techniques he uses to build the Irish uilleann pipes—a notoriously difficult instrument to make, and to play.

Produced by CRAFTSMANSHIP MAGAZINE

Videography by Ruth Carden

Edited by Pauline Bartolone

Music by John Butler

Ruth Carden is a self-taught professional photographer with more than three decades of experience, specializing in environmental portraiture as well as private and commercial works in Ireland.

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