Tom Ryan
speaker
76 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Tom Ryan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Then it began.
For weeks our house was filled with enamel-rasping screeches.
What sounded like nails being drawn across a blackboard, I learned were scales.
The disconcerting, caterwauling-like riffs were arpeggios.
We bit our lips and praised her efforts as we wondered just what exactly we had visited upon our once tranquil little hamlet.
But she was determined.
relentlessly searching for something within the chaotic cadences, something she seemed instinctively to know was there but just out of reach.
Then everything changed.
The mist lifted, the veil drawn back.
It seemed as if in an instant the screeching resolved itself into sweetness and depth and a tonal quality emerged.
she had found the music she was searching for within the chaos.
As her finger placement precision improved, as her bowing became more confident and as she mastered vibrato, we realised we had a musician in the house.
Within a couple of years, she graduated to a three-quarter length violin and at 12, she was ready for full size.
we were recommended a violin maker in Dublin to make a selection.
More than a little out of my depth, it appeared to me that there were two types of violin on offer.
There were the old instruments of various shades of brown and dark amber, some with scratches and obvious repair work.
And then there were the bright new shiny ones.
Only the best for my girl, I thought.
We will have one of those, though I winced at the price tags.
Isabel spent several hours trying out a variety of the shiny models, reluctantly making a selection which we took on approval to Loretto.
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