Nick Whitmer Uilleann Pipes
Nick Whitmer

I'm fascinated with Irish traditional music and play Uilleann Pipes.
I also do historical research on uilleann pipers and piping.


Uilleann Pipes

NOTICE
Effective November 2019 I have stopped taking general orders to make bagpipes.
There are a couple exceptions to this:
1) If you own pipes or pipe parts I have made I am willing to do repairs as necessary, or to make additional parts to fill out a set, as with adding regulators, keys, etc.
2) The odd project that interests me.

Other Things:

My Tunes

Make an E Whistle

About Me

Links

O'Donnell Brothers
Ed and Cornelius O'Donnell

Nick's Piping Archive

Lives of the Pipers
Brief biographies of selected Irish pipers, active in North America before 1950.

Touhey Archive
About Pat "Patsy" Touhey (1865-1923), the most successful of the vaudeville pipers.

O'Donnell Archive
The activites of Ed and Con O'Donnell of Brooklyn, vaudeville "pipers and fiddlers," circa 1903-1920.

Hibernicons: Irish-themed Panorama Shows and Harrigan's Hibernian Company
A little-remembered form of travelling show circa 1865-1900, often including pipers.

Pipes in 19th Century Fiction
A compilation of references to Irish music, pipers and piping in 19th century novels.

The Coffeepot
At least one vaudeville-era piper played this "clown instrument," a pennywhistle tucked inside what looked like an old-fashioned coffeepot.

Nick Whitmer
1 Renwick Place
Ithaca NY 14850
nwhitmer@livesofthepipers.com
June 2022