On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Anthony Robb
[1]anth...@robbpipes.com wrote:
Here is what Forster Charlton, Colin Ross and Roland Wright put
in the
introduction to the second edition to the NPS 1st Tune Book:
Small Coals and Little Money and Cuckold Come Out
On Border pipes, nominally a tone higher, the drones are fixed, in A; they have
no bead holes.
Cuckold, or the Peacock followed the Hen, swap around between B minor and D
major above the A harmony of the drone.
This corresponds to playing them in Aminor/Cmajor against G drones on NSP.
It
On 15 Aug 2012, Matt Seattle wrote:
And neither does playing Cuckold or Peacock on NSP against A drones
sound nasty, but it does miss a lot of the musical effect of these
tunes, the contrasting minor/major strains
Coincidentally (yes, really) I spent part of this afternoon playing
To my ear the best thing about the Peacock with Gg drones is the
prominent clashing f#, which resolves to a d; it is a strongly
emphasised note in the 'C major' strains. BP would have a high g nat
here instead but Peacock was stuck with f# on NSP and seems to have
gloried in it.
