I've started a page having to do with fiddle lessons - not much there yet; I'll be adding to it as time allows.


A great article here having to do with the etymology of the term "uilleann" pipes, with a lot of peripheral information about Irish and Scottish music in England from the 17th through 19th centuries.  It's a long article; I haven't reached the end of it yet.  Here's a contemporary description of a certain nobleman I'd like to have met:


Although no person can be more tenacious of the dignity due to
high birth, or more jealous of the privileges of Aristocracy, yet his
appearance, manner, and habits, are strikingly plebian, and his
companions are selected from the very dregs of democracy. The
principal friends and attendants on his Grace, are a Mr. Se—ge—
ck, a subaltern actor belonging to the Haymarket Theatre, Mr. C—
n—y, the celebrated performer on that harmonious instrument the
bagpipe, and the noted Captain M—r—s, whose excellent songs
have acquired him such unbounded popularity.

jt