A tiny black wooden flute with silver trim rests on a stool on a section of rustic wood flooring depicting a scene from a traditional Irish music session. A small pint of Guinness sits on the floor next to the pint.
A tiny fiddle and matching bow rest on a stool on a section of rustic wood flooring depicting a scene from a traditional Irish music session.
A tiny bodhran -- an Irish frame drum -- rests against a stool on a section of rustic wood flooring depicting a scene from a traditional Irish music session. There is a small stick, called a tipper, on the stool next to it.
A tiny set of uilleann (pronounced ILLin) pipes -- a type Irish bagpipe -- rests on a stool on a section of rustic wood flooring depicting a scene from a traditional Irish music session. This is a complex instrument with a chanter and a stock including three drones and three regulators, which each have a series of metal keys on them. On the floor next to the stool is a set of bellows that are used to inflate the bag by strapping it around the player's torso. Using one elbow to operate the bellows and the other to control the bag pressure (while playing melody on the chanter and accompanying chords on the regulators with the wrist) is what earned this instrument the name 'uilleann' pipes, meaning 'elbow' pipes.
Miniature Irish session
Mixed media
3x4x3ish.
These are on display through Friday at the Midwest Minatures Museum in Grand Haven, MI! The flute took 1st place in this year's art show there!
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