Re: Buying instruments in Ireland.
I'll add another luthier that Lynne has had experience with: Michael Allen in County Tipperary. While visiting our friends the ullieann piper and pipe maker Sean Talty and his wife Jenny, Sean showed Lynne a fiddle he had purchased from Michael. It was love at first bow stroke for Lynne. Sean called up Michael and asked if he had completed fiddles available ... he did .. we made the trip over to Michael's a few days later and drove away with one of his wonderful Gusetto models. Back in the states neither her teacher nor the folks at Vermont Violins believed how little was paid for so nice an instrument. Lynne was lucky that Michael had a used case and a used bow he was willing to sell or she would have had only the fiddle to look at for the rest of our time in County Clare.
Ryk
mandolin ~ guitar ~ banjo
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