I've capoed my chanters by pressing a key in and sticking a pencil eraser inside the key box to prevent it from falling back.
Changing the actual tuning, by turning the tuning pegs, just doesn't work on any instrument in a concert setting in my experience. It always takes time for an instrument to settle into a new tuning, as the wood expands or compresses to accommodate the change in string tension. You'd have to keep retuning in the middle of a tune. Melissa www.melissatheloud.com --- On Wed, 2/9/11, LVJay <[email protected]> wrote: > From: LVJay <[email protected]> > Subject: [HG-new] Tuning chanters up? > To: "hurdygurdy" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 1:46 PM > Is it generally acceptable to tune a > chanter up a whole step, or does > that put too much tension on the instrument? > > Here’s my situation. > > I currently own a lovely D/G instrument, but I have a C/G > being built > that I imagine will be my primary instrument. > > One of my goals is to play with a piper, and during a > performance, it > would be nice to be able to change keys without changing > instruments – > especially as my D/G is “old-school” (as the kids say) > with wooden > tangents that require frequent touch-ups. > > My piper friend has a beautiful set up Uillean pipes with > chanters in > both C and D but at the moment, his only regulator set is > in D. > > He also has a set of small pipes in concert A. > > (For the record, he is primarily a player of the Great > Highland > Pipes, but I don’t dare try to play along with that > beast of an > instrument. The tuning alone would drive me mad). > > SO; The String setup that I am getting on the new > instrument is: > > chanters c / g / g´ > trumpets g / c´ / d´ > drones C / G / d > > > I imagine that it will be easy to capo the drones and > trompettes > accordingly, but what to do about the c chanter in a d tune > and the g > chanter in an a tune? > > I am a pianist, so I’m relatively comfortable working my > way around > sharps and flats, and playing with an open c string also > gives me the > advantage of having the 7th below the low d (which is > common on many > Highland pipe tunes). However; I imagine that there might > be some > interval/intonation issues there, and of course, it would > be much more > physically comfortable to play these (mostly diatonic) > melodies on an > open d string. > > I have the same question regarding tuning the g chanter up > to an a. > > I appreciate any thoughts on the subject. > > Jay > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
