As a non-NSP player who does however
play regularly with NSP players I would caution that a concert D set is
NOT the obvious choice if you are playing with other instruments whose
main keys are G and D. In terms of the range and key of many trad
tunes played on other instruments with which you wish to play along, my
experience tells me that you would be better off with a concert G set
which plays easily in the keys of G and D - and has the notes
equivalent to the fiddle's top string (e f# g a b) - rather than a
concert D set which plays easily in the keys of D and A and only goes
up to f# on the fiddle's top string.
I would ask NSP players to comment on the above from their own
experience.
Matt Seattle
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Gordon Brown <[1]gor...@10db.co.uk>
wrote:
Many thanks to all who replied, I've given this lots of thought! I
really am
set on a concert D set of pipes as my primary aim is to play with
the many
melodeon players that I know and this rather fixes me in D,
especially for
the majority of the tunes I already play. I am also determined to
sing with
the pipes, although I acknowledge the potential problems with the
strap.
Although we have both a chromatic and FC autoharp, the majority of
our
instruments are DG diatonics or straight D diatonic (Gordon has
converted
two 'harps by scratch building complete chord bar assemblies for
them).
Before I finally decide to order a set, is there anyone on the list
that may
wish to part with a concert D set? I've bought 'harps this way
before from
another list, Cyberpluckers, and at least we knew the owner had a
decent
knowledge of the instrument otherwise they wouldn't have contributed
to the
list. I suspect that this goes double for this list!
Alison
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