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Martin Preshaw
Teach an Phíobaire
Formil Road
Mullanmean Under
Drumskinney
Kesh
Co. Fermanagh,
Ireland
BT93 1DR

How Do They Sound?

I have listened carefully to makers' works over the past 20 years and have struggled to be inspired by many of the Uilleann pipes being presented to our community. Often I found, where the aesthetic and practicality of the instrument was superb, the tone and playability of the instrument was lacking. Conversely, when tone and intonation was sound, the presentation in the turning and metal work was poor.

I too have been personally guilty of both in the past as I chased the holy grail. However, my own pipes have been a work in progress since beginning to learn them in my teens, and I firmly believe that my work is now within the best of Irish tradition.

I am delighted with the aesthetic, tone and tuning of my pipes across the pitches, D, C#, C, B, and B Flat.

I present to you, the Uilleann pipe community, a small collection of sound samples of my work. I ask you to listen to other makers work, were possible, live and were not, in the form of sound samples on-line and judge for yourself.

Sample Sound Files and Video

Files are MP3 unless otherwise noted. Recorded flat in stereo on a Edirol and normalized in Audacity, with no additional post-processing.

• C 3/4 Set, Drones (February 2010) (Clip 1, Clip 2)

• C 3/4 Set, Chanter, Drones, Regulators (October 2009)

• C-Practice Set. (Clip 1, Clip 2) (December 2009)

• Interview with Martin Preshaw (Adobe Flash Video)
  A recent television interview, with some examples of how the pipes sound.

Eamonn Dillon: Martin Preshaw D Concert Chanter and Drones, and C# Chanter.

• D 1/2 Set, Clip 1 (1.6mb)

• D 1/2 Set. Clip 2 (1.2mb)

• D 1/2 Set, Clip 3 (1mb)

• D 1/2 Set, Clip 4 (2.7mb)

• D 1/2 Set, Clip 5 (1.4mb)

• C Chanter - Two Double Jigs

• C# Chanter Clip 1

• C# Chanter Clip 2 - Played by Eamonn Dillon

• C# Chanter Clip 3 - Played by Eamonn Dillon

• D Concert Chanter and Drones- Eamonn Dillon and Martin Preshaw (mp3)
  This is large 31 MB file which may take m any minutes to download and play.

Full Set, Concert D, played by Mirtn Coigligh (15 years old). Jis Lochlainn. was the young mandolin player, just 16, who accompnaied him. The geese in the background were accompanied by themselves!

• Clip 1

• Clip 2

• Clip 3

• Clip 4

Martin Preshaw and Eamonn Dillon. May 2009