On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:12 PM, John
Dally <[1]dir...@gmail.com> wrote:
Being a drone musician Peacock might have had an insight into the
tonality of the tune. The first impulse is to think he just
wanted to
fit it on the keyless chanter. It's in Em (the relative minor of
G). Ending on an A, the tune is usually said to be in Am which,
which,
as Barry points out, misses the point altogether.
It's in 'A neutral', a gapped scale, neither major nor minor (although
Peacock's version has a fleeting c, absent from other versions), it
just happens to start on the 5th of the scale (e). I can't agree that
it's in E anything. It fits perfectly because unlike most Highland pipe
tunes the high a is absent, so no clipping required.
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