guess my abc program sucks, it doesnt translate (
derek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Trotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [HG] Tout le village, etc. Tranposing.
Good explanation from Derek, also you might can have your .abc program
transpose to C. That's the way I do it.
Later,
Roy.
--- DEREK LOFTHOUSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Welcome to the great Schism in HurdyGurdy land Seth.
Basically there are two ways of setting up the instrument G/C tuning,
which your Orca sounds like it has. What that means is the open note
on the chanterelles is a G, and the open scale from the 3rd key is
'c'. Your drones are probably G and C.
Gilles Chabanet calls this Classical tuning.
The other tuning, commonly known as Bourbonnais tuning is D/G tuning,
the open note is D and the 3rd note scale is G. Gilles, who did the
arrangement of tout le village... plays an instrument with 4
chanterelles, but comes from the Bourbonnais tradition so most of his
stuff may go down to the D.
As to how to play the tune, either transpose it or pop up the octave
when you go below G.
I think most of the music posted for the 2007 otw is playable on the
G/C tuning
there are tons of tunes out there for the g/c instrument so dont
dispare.
hope this helps
derek
----- Original Message -----
From: Seth Hamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:11 pm
Subject: [HG] Tout le village ignore qualain est mon amant
>
> Tout le village ignore qu'alain est mon amant , I got this
> tune from the OTW website... I pulled up the PDF file and noticed
> it's written in G. I learned to read music as a highland piper so
> I'm really no good at transposing tunes... This tune is written
> below the low G, or note on the 2nd line of the staff... How does
> this work on the gurdy.. I've also noticed some are written with
> this in mind and other tunes go below the open G note and even
> below the open D if it's set up for the key of D... I'm missing
> something... I'm guessing on this tune the C below the staff
> would be the 3rd key on the diatonic part of the gurdy, but I'm
> confused I use the 3rd C key for the C in the middle of the
> staff... Hope this make's sense... Seth
>
