Klaus, You have made the right decision! Apart from Dick Hensold, who has a special love affair with the D chanter, (even though many of us do know how to transpose, and can and do when necessary) my guess would be that 100% of us use the G chanter when playing the NSP with concert pitch instruments - not only for simplicity, but also because the NSP is not an equal tempered instrument, and therefore sounds better (for all of us except Dick!) when it plays in the basic keys. I note that you say that you like to play German and other continental music - so do we. You will get plenty of practice in the different keys as many of the tunes modulate to the dominant and subdominant for the different sections of each tune. I think I am right in saying that Pauline Cato recorded the "Minstrel's Fancy" and "Bonny at Morn" on the G chanter so that players of non-Northumbrian instruments and tradition would get to know the tunes and they, on non-transposing instruments, could play along with the CDs. Hoping you have as much enjoyment with your G chanter as I have with mine. Sheila
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