It would be interesting to hear what the pipemakers have to say about keyless chanters with a flattened seventh. In looking at my own scabrous keyless chanter one the reasons I've held off on filling in the f hole and redilling a flattened seventh is that unless the hole is drilled at an extreme angle the f hole will be too close to the e hole to finger on an F chanter.
The point of playing a keyless chanter is that there are no keys to fumble with. This makes it relatively easy to play tunes with a flattened seventh, or whatever mode you want to play in. Playing keyless chanters in various keys is like a melodeon player having a single row melodeon for every mode he/she may want to play in, as opposed to having a B/C or C#/D box which would be the equivalent to playing a keyed chanter. John Dally -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
