However, he is best known as a master of the uilleann pipes.

It is an air traditionally associated with the uilleann pipes.

Being blind, he was given the uilleann pipes as a means of earning a living.

At the age of 12, Spillane started playing the uilleann pipes.

He was a performer, manufacturer and teacher of the uilleann pipes throughout his life.

A series of short staccato notes played on the Uilleann pipes.

The music has an Irish influence, and some pieces feature uilleann pipes.

Following a visit to his cousins in Dublin he took up uilleann pipes.

He is a multi-instrumentalist and a master of the Uilleann pipes.

The term "uilleann pipes" is first attested at the beginning of the 20th century.

One day he heard the uilleann pipes playing on the jukebox in a Boston pub.

He also plays the Uilleann pipes and low whistle.

A full set, as the name implies, is a complete set of uilleann pipes.

It features many familiar sounds from his earlier albums, such as uilleann pipes and female chorus.

He is also accomplished on the uilleann pipes.

His mother bought him a tin whistle when he was six and he started to learn the Uilleann pipes at the age of eight.

He bought a bag containing the pieces of a set of old uilleann pipes.

One contact led to another, and my persistence led me to connect with the Uilleann pipes.

He does, however, admit that the uilleann pipes are "the expression that I needed."

There is no historical record of the name or use of the term 'uilleann pipes' before the twentieth century.

It ends with the Uilleann pipes fading out.

He plays a number of wind instruments including the Uilleann pipes, bagpipes and the flute.

The uilleann pipes are often played indoors, and are almost always played sitting down.

It is played by Davy Spillane on the uilleann pipes.

The instrumental break features the Irish uilleann pipes.

The uilleann or union pipes developed around the beginning of the 18th century.

Many later Pastoral sets, though, have a dismountable foot joint; when this is removed they can be played as union pipes.

Note that in Northern Ireland, uillean pipes are sometimes known as union pipes.

He should not be confused with one M. Dunn, the maker of several surviving sets of Union pipes.

I played on the union pipes a slow air, Lord Mayo, An Tiarna Mhuigeo.

Henry Clough was known to play a Reid set of Union pipes including regulators; surviving parts of this set are now in private hands.

Michael Egan, the famous maker of the Irish or Union pipes, who knew all the best pipers of his day, was of the same opinion.

The Pastoral pipes gradually evolved into the Union pipes as Baroque musical tastes favoured a more expressive type of instrument.

However, the first attested written form is "Union pipes", at the end of the 18th century, perhaps to denote the union of the chanter, drones, and regulators.

Robertson was one of the contemporary innovators of the pastoral and union pipes, as with other instrument makers in the mid-18 to 19th centuries across Scotland, England and Ireland.

The Pastoral and later flat set Union pipes developed with ideas on the instrument being traded back-and-forth between Ireland, Scotland and England, around the 18th and early 19th century.

It is gradually becoming accepted that the union pipes originated from the Pastoral pipes and gained popularity in Ireland within the Protestant Anglo-Irish community and its gentlemen pipers.

Earlier known in English as "union pipes", their current name is a partial translation of the Irish-language term píobaí uilleann (literally, "pipes of the elbow"), from their method of inflation.

Other telecommunications companies had considered buying the Western Union pipes, but found them in disrepair and, in many cases, in locations that would not be useful for reaching some of the most lucrative corporate customers.

Hugh Robertson (1730-1822) was a Scottish wood and ivory turner and a master crafter of woodwind instruments such as Pastoral Pipes, Union pipes, and Great Highland Bagpipes.

The uilleann pipes developed around the beginning of the 18th century, the history of which is depicted in carvings and pictures from contemporary sources in both Britain and Ireland as pastoral and union pipes.

Robertson had a wide and highly crafted repertoire of a maker of Great Highland Bagpipes, Pastoral pipes sometimes termed in Edinburgh as the "flat-set of pipes" and Union pipes.

The pastoral pipes can be played either standing or in a seated position using a set of bellows, and the chanter is similar to the later Union pipes, but it had an added foot joint that extended its range one tone lower.

The Union pipes, which evolved from the pastoral pipes, enable the player to interrupt the flow of air by stopping the end of the chanter on his knee; this doesn't work for the Pastoral instrument because of the side tone holes.

Due to the popularity of plays and playlets of the time and interests and patronage of amateur gentleman pipers of the l8th-19th centuries, master craftsman like Robertson crafted high quality instruments including bellows blown Pastoral and Union pipes.

Famous performers on the Irish or Union pipes in the 18th and early part of the 19th centuries, Chapter XIX, Irish Minstrels and Musicians, Capt. Francis O'Neill, Chicago, Regan Printing House, 1913.

Other modifications of Scottish-made Union pipes of this period, included the addition of a third drone and model the drone stock into a separate chamber for the drone and regulator reeds, instruments of this period regularly attached the regulators above the stock.

Alternatively Union pipes were certainly a favourite of the upper classes in Scotland, Ireland and the North-East of England and were fashionable for a time in formal social settings, where the term Union pipes may also originate.

Recognized for his skill and development of the pastoral and union pipes, Roberson was presented a set of union pipes from the Duchess of Northumberland belonging to the famous and somewhat infamous Newcastle upon Tyne piper Jamie Allen.

The Pastoral Pipe (also known as the Scottish Pastoral pipes, Hybrid Union pipes, Organ pipe and Union pipe) was a bellows-blown bagpipe, widely recognised as the forerunner and ancestor of the 19th-century Union pipes, which became the Uilleann Pipes of today.