] Re: Finger spacing
Make the chanter an octave lower. That's only two tones nominal, about
two and a half actual, below a GBP PC. He should be able to run off a
keyless chanter pretty quickly, take it along to his local club, and
see if people are happy with somebody playing a bass line :-)
Ross
On 10 Jan 2008, at 10:23, Ross Anderson wrote:
Feeding the beast on a
mixture of air and helium should do the trick.
Great idea, Ross!
A similar result might be achieved by running very fast towards your
fellow players. Christian Doppler would agree.
Francis
To get on or off this
On 10 Jan 2008, at 10:47, Gibbons, John wrote:
the F pipes he's
playing will sound G# to me. Nasty
Well, I was thinking of the benefit to the majority of the players.
But you are right, John.
The effect would be almost as bad as a group of pipers playing
together in both F and F plus
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Subject: [NSP] Re: Finger spacing
On 10 Jan 2008, at 10:23, Ross Anderson wrote:
Feeding the beast on a
mixture of air and helium should do the trick.
Great idea, Ross!
A similar result might be achieved
22:09
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: Finger spacing
Dear Colin and everyone,?
?
This is a quest for knowledge and not a suggestion, but would it be possible to
lower the pitch of a chanter by narrowing the bore and, conversly, raise the
pitch by widening the bore? If so, would it be possible to make
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To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:09
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: Finger spacing
Dear Colin and everyone,?
?
This is a quest for knowledge and not a suggestion, but would it be
possible to lower the pitch of a chanter by narrowing
Dear Helen,
I actually made a D set for someone with larger fingers which was comfortable
for him and didn't worry him as he was not intending to play with other F
pipers and to be realistic might be the only way to fix him up with a playing
set he can manage.
However if the finger holes are
On 9 Jan 2008, at 22:09, Richard Shuttleworth wrote:
but would it be possible to lower the pitch of a chanter by
narrowing the bore and, conversly, raise the pitch by widening the
bore?
Richard’s suggestion . . . spreading the finger-hole positions and
widening the bore . . would
