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Coyne, Maurice

?-?

bagpipe maker, also a piper (or vv.) (&c.), mentioned by name

Born in Carbury [NNE of Edenderry, Co. Kildare]; One of 4 brothers, respectable farmers, he took to "playing the pipes" as a youth and migrated to Dublin, where he acquired the tools and business of "younger Kenna" on the latter’s death; O’Neill states (1912) that "his instruments, of which many are yet in existence, display neat workmanship and, though lacking in volume, are pure and sweet in tone"; NB: ➺ Thomas Kenna ("the younger").

Instrument: Uilleann pipe(s)


Sources

O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.157.