Allow me to offer a totally different perspective on how to answer this
question:
Can you already play all the tunes you want to play with the chanter you have
now? Are there no tunes that you've set aside for when you thought you had
improved to the point where you could actually play them? Been through all the
tunes in all the books you have?
Don't misunderstand me--I thouroughly empathize with "key lust." (I believe
it's related to "tune book lust.") But if you were asking for were answers to
your root question, this might help.
Alec
-----Original Message-----
From: John Dally <dir...@gmail.com>
To: NSP group <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 9:01 am
Subject: [NSP] a key question for NSPipers
When do you qualify to really "need" more keys? When I ordered my set
number of years ago I was convinced that the desire for 17 keys was
eally too much, so I ordered a thirteen key set instead. Now I find
yself reaching for the two "missing" Bb's and C#'s. Is there such a
hing as "key-envy"? Is it presumptuous or perhaps a failure of
magination to want more keys? How many keys is enough? I hear tell
f twenty five key chanters now. Is this obsession a pipemaker's
ightmare?
heers,
ohn
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