Just my 2 penn'orth (with apologies for any points remade) ... More so than Dru, I even have difficulty sealing the holes of the regular F#ish chanter I had made for club sessions. Thus, I'm effectively limited to my fully chromatic 2 octave 'hedgehog' D chanter at present. However, similarly wanting to play along with a historical dance band, I've tried transposing our repertoire on several occasions and too often been stumped by resultant 'impossible' key sequences (consecutive side-keyed notes requiring a thumb swap between) to make that realistic. Adrian has already mentioned the other problem (running out of notes at the top end).
I therefore identified 2 options ... * MIDI e-NSP: Transposable at the flick of a switch with no need for ever-tricky miking to balance sound level but no MIDI voice for authentic NSP sound (AFAIK), reckoned bad for technique and unable to fully encompass my accustomed 24 notes (latter 2 drawbacks specific to Charlie Young's design) * G chanter with holes angularly fan-bored to widen their outer-end spacing: My preference as soon as I can justify the expense (maybe good for Dru too) In short, way to go Klaus ! Cheers, Steve Collins To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
