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 hole would
have to be cut into the reed staple itself. Ouch!!
When a high C# comes in a tune I play middle C# and it's not too bad.
Anthony
--- On Tue, 14/12/10, John Dally <dir...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: John Dally <dir...@gmail.com>
Subject: [NSP] Re: a key question for NSPipers
To: barr...@nspipes.co.uk, nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Tuesday, 14 December, 2010, 18:19
High and low C# are the ones I'm missing, as well as middle and low
Bbs. The high C# might be better utilized as a high C. I'm probably
exposing a gross ignorance by speculating which keys at the top of the
chanter would be most useful.
On 12/14/10, [1]barr...@nspipes.co.uk <[2]barr...@nspipes.co.uk> wrote:
> So, which 13 keys do you have? I can guess the two missing Bb's.
> On the other hand, missing two C#'s seems a little strange.
>
> Barry
>
>
>
> Quoting John Dally <[3]dir...@gmail.com>:
>
>> When do you qualify to really "need" more keys? When I ordered my
set
>> a number of years ago I was convinced that the desire for 17 keys
was
>> really too much, so I ordered a thirteen key set instead. Now I
find
>> myself reaching for the two "missing" Bb's and C#'s. Is there such
a
>> thing as "key-envy"? Is it presumptuous or perhaps a failure of
>> imagination to want more keys? How many keys is enough? I hear
tell
>> of twenty five key chanters now. Is this obsession a pipemaker's
>> nightmare?
>> cheers,
>> John
>>
>>
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