Of course can learn alternative fingering and I am willing to do. But my arguments for a G Chanter are. - I am a starter on NSP. My co musicans play often in G and don´t like to transpose their instruments - Beeing a starter I will be quicker with the standard fingering on a G chanter than using an alternativ fingering on a F chanter. - When music is written in G and I have to transpose it in my mind into A on a F chanter that seem to complicate for me at the moment. - If I develope my alternative fingering (what I will do, but it takes times) and use it on a G chanter I will have more variety.
Cheers Klaus Paul Gretton schrieb: >"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 >> >> > > > > > > --
