On 27 Apr 2010, at 19:50, Julia Say wrote: > I'd also heard this one, but with the instrument as a military fife, which > had a d# > key. I think there was speculation that this is why the seventh key to be > placed on > an nsp chanter was that d#.
Interesting thought. There are very few known 6 key chanters, though. Perhaps 5 or 6. One formerly belonged to Burl Ives. Haydn was another admirer of the Roslyn Castle melody and included it among the songs he arranged for the Edinburgh publisher George Thomson. Francis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
