Jim Hunter, three chord guitar wonder!
(Not exactly my best instrument,
but at least you can get an idea
of what your tipper-maker looks like.)

Tom McSwiggan, Ottawa: tipper tester
and past director of the Ottawa Comhaltas Ceili Band

The Ottawa Comhaltas Ceili Band at the monthly dance

The Ottawa Ceili band at the Christimas ceili.
Slightly out of focus, as we all were that night.
Left to right: Jeremy Keddy (pipes), Greg Brown, multi-instrumentalist (fiddle), Dave Clydesdale (flute), Martha Cooper (flute), Marietta Fraser (guitar), Frank Cassidy (whistle), Jim Hunter (piano), Denis Alexander (fiddle), Elizabeth Scarlett (fiddle), Alf Warnock (banjo), Tom McSwiggan (button accordian & vocals)

{So, is that snow in the air or are those "orbs" really ghostly apparitions?!!}

Sandy Hunter, Montreal: tipper tester and professional percussionist

A pair of heavy-weight ebony practise drum sticks
for the snare drum - turned by hand

Monday night celtic session at Rasputins Cafe, Ottawa

The Ottawa-based celtic band, JADE (from left to right):
Don Fletcher (Cape Breton fiddler),
Jim Hunter (yours, truly, keyboards),
Elizabeth Scarlett (Irish fiddler),
Alf Warnock (banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, and vocals)

Here are two shots of Martha Cooper.
She is a teacher at the Ottawa Floklore Centre
for both wooden flute and bodhrán,
and is a proud owner of Hunter tippers.

Bob Ferguson, Ottawa: tipper tester, wood worker,
and shape-note recording artist.

D'Arcy McGuire, Ottawa;
percussionist, RCMP Pipe Band and proud owner of Hunter tippers.

Beth McGillivary from North Gower Ontario,
tipper tester and player, at the Cape Breton Session
in the Highlander Pub, Ottawa, every Sunday afternoon
Eileen Gracie, fiddler, in the background

Alistair Dennet from Manotick Ontario,
tipper tester and bodhrán teacher,
in session at Rasputins, every Monday night.

Dennet has recently written a few pages of notes
for a bodhrán workshop in Winnipeg Manitoba;
they appear here courtesy of his kind permission.
Click HERE