[NSP] Re: Extended chanter key positions

[Gibbons, John]

Even 8 pipers using conventional pipes could play the Peacock plain
chanter tunes that way.

Meggy's Foot might be fun.... 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bliven [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 01 November 2007 16:37
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Re: Extended chanter key positions

on 11/1/07 12:26 PM, Gibbons, John at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> You could have separate chanters for each note, avoiding messy
multiple
> key clusters, also enabling playing of chords. You could optimise the
> reed for each note. Fit them all in a box fed by a compressor and you
> might be getting somewhere...
> 
> John

Or have an entire orchestra, each member with a one-note chanter.  Kind
of
like the bell-ringers that that are defrosted and put out to public each
Christmas....

Best wishes.

Steve



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