> Tune in E maj on G chanter - the A part has about 78 notes and 62 of > them are played on the right thumb so even electronic pipes >don't help > unless of course you cheat by electronically transposing.
Assuming that Catriona's fiddle was at concert pitch and that she was playing in E major, I think the most likely explanation for the pipes would be that Alice was playing a chanter in concert F sharp. In nominal terms this would put her in F, with B flat the only "unusual" note. On a concert F chanter she would have to have been playing in nominal F sharp (ouch) and on a D chanter in nominal A. It would be interesting to know what she was in fact playing. C To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
