If you have any questions about Celtic music, I guess I'm a bit of an enthusiast, so fire away and I'll do my best!

Personally, I play clarinet and saxophones...that's my jazz background, clarinet is my classical instrument and really where my "heart" is. On the Celt side I mostly play whistles and flute, but I can thump away pretty good on a bodhran, too. I'd love to get set of uillean pipes, but I won't buy junk and a new set from Ireland is about $2500 or more, with a two to three year wait to get one. I might break down sometime soon and get a less expensive set of Scottish smallpipes, which I can play in the local sessions and not blow the roof off the building like I would if I had Highland pipes. They're available locally (here in the SF Bay Area) for around $500.

BTW, the best source on the West Coast of the USA for world musical instruments, including bagpipes, flutes and bodhrans is Lark in the Morning..

http://www.larkinthemorning.com


Alan