Busy with real music so briefly: Tim & Adrian: Tune in E maj on G chanter - the A part has about 78 notes and 62 of them are played on the right thumb so even electronic pipes don't help unless of course you cheat by electronically transposing. Barry: Tradition is wonderful but not if it insists on flat Bs etc! I thought at the time your fruit analogy was flawed (perishables compared with reasonably stable entities - not a good idea). Just as Reid pipes need tweaking to make them sweet to modern ears so too with the Cox - Bryan spacings. Dukes -paid hundreds of pounds in pipers wages to keep them in the popular domain this included a Tyneside Reid in the mid 19th century. I'm sure you will be able to discover more should you wish to delve. Anthony
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