"G chanter with holes angularly fan-bored to widen their outer-end spacing"
But the circumference isn't that great, so how much advantage can you get this way? On a recorder there is more bore so more profit in doing it this way. And covering the holes is far easier when your fingers are straight, which would be harder if the holes were wrapped round the chanter rather than lined up - I think a cheap (plastic?) prototype might be needed before plunging ~£1K into the project. But would be a potentially good idea if it did work. John -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 May 2007 11:11 To: [email protected] Subject: [NSP] Re: G sets 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
