Found Sound for February: Muireann Ní Sheoighe Eachthighearn

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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For February’s Found Sound, Alice Boyd visits Muireann Ní Sheoighe Eachthighearn, one of only a handful of female luthiers, or fiddle makers, working in Ireland. Alice records the many interesting sounds of Muireann’s practice - from a chisel in maple to the sound of water hitting a hot bending iron. Found Sounds are sonic scrapbooks of field recordings and interviews with people keeping heritage crafts alive. They are part of As the Season Turns, an award-winning podcast created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.
0:16.2	I'm Leah Lane Dirtz and I'm delighted to introduce this found sound for February, presented by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd.
0:25.6	Found sounds are sonic scrapbooks of interviews and field recordings.
0:30.6	Alice is travelling across the UK and Ireland to meet people inspired by heritage crafts, folklore and nature and record the sounds of
0:40.2	their practice. In February's episode, Alice visits Lucia Murin Nishuega Acktern in her workshop
0:48.4	in County Tipperary, Ireland. Murin demonstrates how she crafts a violin from scratch, reflecting on the influence of landscape
0:57.5	and the role that craft, collaboration and working with her hands has had on her life.
1:04.3	You may wish to pause the podcast here for a moment, while you find somewhere warm and quiet
1:09.8	to close your eyes, sit back and settle down
1:13.6	into this month's Found Sound.
1:31.3	Maren, can you introduce yourself and describe your work? Hiya, I am Mourin, Nishoyka Akhtun, and I am a lusier, mainly in the violin family.
1:38.3	So I make and restore instruments like violins and violas and cellos.
1:44.8	And can you tell me where we are right now?
1:47.2	So we are in my workshop just at my family home in Tipperary, near the Shore Valley.
1:53.2	We're surrounded by all these violins, these fiddles, I see a couple of pipes.
1:58.7	Yeah.
1:59.1	Can you talk us through your workshop? Yeah, so this is kind of like
2:03.9	what my brain feels like, very kind of busy but organized. So we have a lot of art that my friends
2:11.6	have made and a lot of instruments that are either being made or finished. Some strange instruments as well that I'm working on.
2:20.8	We've got a lot of notebooks and nice books around.
2:25.3	And obviously my tools, like the main stuff that you need for making instruments.
2:29.5	But yeah, a lot of dried herbs and nice looking things, nice smelling and nice looking things.
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