Nate's workshop is located in Rockaway Beach, in New York City.

"I needed a large-capacity bellows that would be a comfortable, dependable, efficient workhorse that would stand up to excessive wear and tear. The bellows Mike made for me is an outstanding piece of craftsmanship which is all of these things plus some. You simply cannot do better than a Mike Dow bellows."

- Jerry O'Sullivan - 2000

Please visit his web site at www.archcarving.com for more information.

Jerry Freeman is the world's only full time, professional penny whistle
tweaker. "Tweaking" a penny whistle is much like setting up a guitar or fiddle; it is the process of making fine adjustments and modifications to get the best possible performance from the instrument.

Jerry takes mass produced whistles (Generations, Feadogs, etc.) and adjusts the soundblade position, windway exit geometry, voicing chamber and tonebody to create affordable instruments that many consider not simply outstanding whistles for the modest cost, but outstanding whistles at any cost.

Jerry offers tweaked Generations in high G, high F, Eb, D, C and Bb, tweaked Feadogs in D, and his own creations, the widely acclaimed Blackbirds and Mellow Dogs.

Mellow Dogs are wide body whistles available in D and as a D/C set (one whistlehead with two tubes). Blackbirds are standard body whistles available in Eb, D and C. Both are noted for their pure drop authentic traditional voicings that favor a birdlike, sweet timbre in a very responsive, clean playing instrument.

Connecticut's own wooden flute makers since 1974. Founded by Ralph Sweet; retired physics teacher, caller and teacher of contra and square dancing, fifer and drummer since 1946.

Specializing in Irish flutes, pennywhistles, low whistles, military fifes, baroque flutes, renaissance fifes, folk flutes, piccolos, walking stick flutes and tabor pipes. Featuring the revolutionary new WD Sweet professional model pennywhistle as well as books, CDs and other fine wooden instruments.

With over 5,000 books in stock, Monroe Bridge Books specializes in used and rare - Scottish, Irish, Welsh English and Gaelic Books ( as well as an extensive general stock). Their inventory can be found on-line at the website link listed above. They also provide lists and catalogs that are subject specific - upon request.

Will gladly open by appointment, if you are in the area.

Monroe Bridge Books is a proud member of MARIAB, the Massachusetts & Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers Association.

Best known for his work with Blowzabella, of which he was a founder member, Jon's main instruments are border bagpipes, saxophones and flutes. While his early musical training was in the classical field, he was drawn to folk music while studying instrument-making. He now combines pipe-making with performance and composition. A couple of years after Blowzabella ended in 1990, Jon founded the bagpipe trio, Moebius, for which he writes all the music; they released the album ‘August’ in 1993, and have performed extensively in this country and in Europe and America. In 1998 he started the six bagpipes and percussion group Zephyrus specifically to perform his 35 minute composition ‘The Halfe Hannikin Variations’. Zephyrus was successful in obtaining Arts Council funding for a tour in 1990. A recording of the Variations is planned, together with a new work ‘The English Suite’, a piece which received its first performance in the summer of 2003. Jon has long thought of the possibility of a bagpipe/accordion duo as an opportunity to explore a rich harmonic soundworld not usually associated with pipes. In 2005 Jon and Becky released their CD of English and Border music ‘Love and a Bottle’. They also plan a CD of waltes and mazurkas of their own composition.
Jon has over fifteen years experience of giving pipe workshops in England, Europe and America. Topics can include technique, English repertoire, developing the range and awareness of musical expression, and bagpipe group harmony. To the latter he brings his wide experience with Moebius and Zephyrus.