The wrong tune has been printed on p. 44 of the just-published NPS journal. The
observant will notice that the first tune on the page is the same as the one on
the
bottom of p.43.
The Bricklayer's Rant (which should be on p. 44) may be found at:
I had various replies to this off list, so hope you don't mind a
massed on-list reply.
Thanks for them too, and apologies for a slight delay, we were busy
becoming grandparents for the first time were bit pre-occupied and
very pleased!!
I realise various people had various reservations
Great question, John.
I'm sure there are people who get the extra keys because the look cool, but I'd
hope that you'd not get the bigger chanter until you needed it. By that I
mean that you need it to play the music you want to play.
I started out with at 7-key set, and I'm glad I did. I
Hello John
Like everything else it is a compromise and also depends on what you
want to play.
Having said that a point will be reached when increased physical effort
makes it harder to play sensitively. The first 17 key chanter I ever
tried was a Clough - Picknell one which had
Hello John
There might be a bit of confusion here. If you look at your high B key
you'll see that it is just about at the very top of the chanter. Colin
Ross managed to squeezee in a top C in place of a high Bb key but to
get up to highC# would be impossible on the pipes as the
When a high C# comes in a tune I play middle C# and it's not too
bad.
Anthony
Yes - City of Savannah is the one that first springs to mind, and the
others I can think of are also not pipe tunes ...
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Those that have met me will know that I am a very mediocre player
indeed and will probably remain one. But I've thought quite a lot about
this.
My set has 11 keys. I use the Fâ®s quite a lot. Although the top one is
difficult to play cleanly, I like the dark sound when you slip it into
a
Allow me to offer a totally different perspective on how to answer this
question:
Can you already play all the tunes you want to play with the chanter you have
now? Are there no tunes that you've set aside for when you thought you had
improved to the point where you could actually play them?
