In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I. Oppenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, John Chambers wrote: > >> The Scottish highland pipes are highly diatonic, and have >> the scale G A B ^c d e f g a. These are the only notes they >> play with any accuracy. The highland pipe music thus uses >> the keys of D major and A mixolyian primarily (and also B >> minor and E dorian). > >Thank you for this information. I assume you meant ^f >in the scale above? It would be beneficial to put some >explanation about this in the ABC standard for those >software developers that are clueless about the Hp >scales mentioned in the standard. > >> (Actually, the g's on the highland pipes are often tuned to >> be between g and ^g, but that's a different story. > >So it's a microtonal instrument! Someone wrote that the >HP plays all notes half a note higher than notated. Did >I understand that correctly?
Yes. Or rather, yes, approximately. The notes sounded are approximately a semitone (half-step) sharp plus C#:19 D: 53 E: 35 F# 17 G 41 A: 33 B: 37 cents sharper still. 100cents=1 semitone. Of course not all pipes are exactly the same... But these are the values I have found in books and which are used in Music Publisher for playback. Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
