Carbray, James
?-?maker of bagpipes (&c.) mentioned by name
Born in Quebec, Canada (His parents emigrated from Co. Tyrone in the 1850s); A florist in Chicago, he was also a musician-mechanic who, according to O’Neill, "has devised reamers which bore out chanters as true in tone as ever came from the hands of Taylor"; A very good fiddler, he also "loved to dally with the Irish pipes".
Instrument: Uilleann pipe(s)
O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.166, 431.