"Bizarre" ??? Not entirely serious, I admit, as indicated by the winking smiley at the end.
Yes, it is of course perfectly possible to play a tone up - I do it all the time on various instruments, including NSP. (For trumpet, you have to learn to sight-read much harder transpositions than this one; in a 19th-century symphony you may be switching to a different transposition every few bars. And Italian clarinettists play everything on the A clarinet, poor sods.) But the fact that something is possible doesn't mean it's necessarily a practical option, which it seemed to me was what the original poster was asking about. If playing everything a tone up were the solution then there would be no market for G chanters. Are there really people who consider it practical to rattle through the repertoire - including the "big" hornpipes - a tone up? (Assuming their chanter has the keys to do it.) It's not just like slapping a capo on a guitar. And of course if the original poster's chanter plays at around F#, then the suggestion becomes entirely impractical. I agree that people would do well to learn to transpose, but there is a good reason for G chanters, as you yourself would seem to have discovered! BTW, it's confusing to say that recorder players "have to learn different fingerings for different [instruments]." The fingerings remain the same, although the player has to be able to read various keys/clefs. That is very different to playing a tone up on the NSP. And if a recorder player is called on to play at 415, 392, or 466 as opposed to 440, they will use an instrument built for that pitch rather than transpose. Cheers, Paul Gretton -----Original Message----- From: Ewan Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 May 2007 02:36 To: Paul Gretton Subject: [NSP] Re: G Set This is a very bizarre response, Paul, to something put forward as a sensible and reasonable suggestion. It is perfectly possible to play in A. Playing in E might stretch the technique a bit, but it could be done on slower tunes. (Of course, I do have a G chanter myself!) Cheers, Ewan. Ewan Barker School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences University of Ballarat (CRICOS Provider Number 00103D) PO Box 663 Ballarat Victoria 3353 AUSTRALIA ph (03) 5327 9274 >>> "Paul Gretton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 27-May-07 5:37:05 am >>> Hilarious John! Have you thought of doing stand-up? ;-) Cheers, Paul Gretton -----Original Message----- From: Rev John Clifford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 May 2007 21:01 To: Klaus Guhl Cc: [email protected] Subject: [NSP] Re: G Set Klaus, There is an alternative, and much cheaper -- learn to play your existing chanter with alternative fingering -- recorder players have to learn different fingerings for different chanters so it can be done. John Clifford who has a C chanter and can play it as a D chanter when playing with other pipers. > As playing with other musicans I am thinking of buying a G chanter or a > secondhand G set. Is there someone who wants to sell a G chanter or G set? > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > Virus scanned by Lumison. > > > ownerpageof
