on 11/1/07 12:26 PM, Gibbons, John at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could have separate chanters for each note, avoiding messy multiple
key clusters, also enabling playing of chords. You could optimise the
reed for each note. Fit them all in a box fed by a compressor and you
might be getting
Gibbons, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even 8 pipers using conventional
pipes could play the Peacock plain
chanter tunes that way.
Meggy's Foot might be fun
..but could they do it in tune? Recall the old joke about how one gets two
bagpipes in tune. :-)
--Mike
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on 11/1/07 2:26 PM, Philip Gruar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was a 19th century Russian aristocrat, can't remember who just
off-hand (he may even have been 18th century) who had an orchestra of his
serfs, all blowing just one note each on long trumpets (or may have been
hunting horns).
