Jack Campin writes:
> a useful function when notating music for stopped bagpipes, like
> uillean or Northumbrian pipes; with these you have a choice of whether
> to play legato or introduce a momentary silence by putting all your
> fingers down. In practice people use slurs for this, but if I were
> trying to write down the sort of tricks Dick Hensold uses I might want
> more options. Perhaps it might also serve to represent string damping
>
Pat Mitchell and Jackie Small, in their transcriptions of Patsy
Tuohey's piping (uilleann pipes), use a comma (breathmark) to indicate
those places where the chanter is closed, but the note is not quite
staccato. It's a delicate distinction which only comes up when you're
trying to capture the fine points of a particular performance, but I've
found it useful.
Cheers,
John Walsh
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