Williamson, James
?-?bagpipe maker, also a piper (or vv.) (&c.), mentioned by name
Among the exhibits at the "Irish Harp Festival", held in Belfast in 1903, were several sets of pipes made by him; Also a piper, we learn from the press that he "played magnificently on the Irish pipes" on that occasion; O’Neill finishes his chapter "Famous Bagpipe Makers" with Williamson, and the statement that "In the vicissitudes of human life with its changing moods and fashions, the pipemakers - not so long ago a flourishing fraternity - have dwindled almost to the vanishing point".
Instrument: Uilleann pipe(s)
O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.167.