Hello Colin, Thanks so much for the advice. That does make a lot of sense. I have experimented playing closed fingered on my SSP chanter in D, but as you know many of the notes are out of tune if you play it closed fingered. It does, however, offer some insight into how closed fingering sounds on an open chanter. Of course, if you play closed fingered on an open chanter you have to keep your pinkie up so that the base note between the other notes, the sound that is not there on a closed chanter, is in tune with the drones. The result is something akin to Macedonian piping. It's perhaps more interesting intellectually than satisfying musically, by which I do not mean to imply anything negative about Macedonian piping.
Best wishes, John Dally [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/04/2006 09:22 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] cc Subject Fwd: [NSP] peacock pipes In a message dated 02/10/2006 23:50:50 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've had the idea of a keyless, open-ended chanter with a flattened seventh that would be played with NSP style fingering, primarily inspired by Dixon tunes. Dear John, I made a chanter as you describe and found that the tight spacing between the top two finger holes made it impossible to play if you are meaning making a chanter in F natural. I have made a simple set in D Northumbrian style with the closed end on which you could do that as I have found with all the Scottish small pipes I have made in that key. I would suggest you try that with a D chanter or perhaps a C chanter instead. Cheers. Colin R ----- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:47:44 -0700 ----- To: [email protected] Subject: [NSP] peacock pipes I've had the idea of a keyless, open-ended chanter with a flattened seventh that would be played with NSP style fingering, primarily inspired by Dixon tunes. Julia very kindly gave me a keyless chanter to experiment with, but I haven't had the heart to open up the bottom or fill and redrill the 'f' hole. It's been a lot of fun to play as is. John Dally -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
