Graham Reid
Instrument Maker: Irish flutes, harps, bodhrans, dords.
Graham has been making and playing traditional instruments for twenty years. Born in Africa of Irish decent, Graham's youth was spent surrounded by rich tribal rhythms and exotic instruments. His earliest musical mentor, Morris Judge, was a multi-instrumentalist from Ireland whose main instrument was the flute. Graham went to college in the U.S., getting his B.F.A.. with a degree show consisting of "glass and bronze didgeridoos"; then moved to Ireland. He has since been to Sweden to study harp making with the master instrument maker Hans Tolkien, and is carrying out an extended apprenticeship with master Uilleann Pipe maker Charles Roberts. Graham has recently started making traditional Irish flutes in partnership with Charles Roberts, and continues to make "three-piece wooden didgeridoos - or dords", bodhrans, and harps, from his workshop in Sligo, Ireland.
Price list.
Roberts and Reid Irish flutes
These flutes are taken from an old pattern and made in the traditional way for ease of playing and rich tone. They are pitched in D and have ferrules and tuning slides out of brass or nickel silver. Keys can be added to make a fully chromatic flute, at extra cost.
Simple system Irish flute out of African black wood in concert pitch - no keys: £230
Fully chromatic flute in blackwood and brass: £480
F natural, C natural, G sharp, A sharp and D sharp Keys - £50 each out of brass - £75 out of nickel silver. All keys are hand forged and block mounted.Also available in Rosewood, boxwood and ebony.
Three piece didgeridoos (or dords) in concert pitch (D).
These were developed by graham for didge players who want to play with traditional Irish instruments. Pitched in D with a tuning slide and brass ferrules and mouth piece, they will harmonise with tunes in D, G and A.
Three piece didge in D with tuning slide in native Irish hardwood: £300
Also available in other woods.
Bronze strung low headed harps.
The pattern for these harps has been taken from the oldest surviving examples of the Irish harp, namely the Brian Boru harp and the Queen Mary Harp. Made in maple with brass tuning pegs and stand.
Bronze strung low headed harp: £1500
Bronze strung low headed harp with fish carved into neck as in old harps: £2000
Bodhrans.
The rims are made from one piece of steamed ash. Goat skin, and ash and brass tuning ring.
Ash bodhran: £150
Tuneable bodhran: £230
Payment can be made in bank draft in Irish punts, or current sterling or U.S.D. at current exchange rate. Contact Graham at:
Graham Reid, Dromore, Ballintogher, County Sligo, Ireland
Telephone: 353 71 64747
E mail: grahamreid@tinet.ie
