May 31, 2024
When you’re making an instrument, you’re forming something that
can be used to design a melody. Or a musical life. This episode
follows a precious flute’s unexpected journey. And flute makers
Patrick Olwell and Eamonn Cotter, piper Colleen Shanks, and fiddle
players Bob Childs and Pat O’Connor talk about what it’s like to
carve an approach as musicians and craftspeople.
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Thank you to everybody for listening. And a special thank you to
this month’s underwriters: Lynn Stewart, Karin Kettenring,
Julia Richards, the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, John Sigler,
Randall Semagin, Ron Kral, Isaiah Hall, David Vaughan, Susan Walsh,
Matt Jensen, John Ploch, Tom Frederick, Paul DeCamp, Jonathan
Duvick, Gerry Corr, Mike Voss, Sean Carroll, Isobel McMahon, Bob
Suchor, Finian McCluskey, Rick Rubin, Ken Doyle, Chris Armstrong,
Ian Bittle, and Chris Murphy