Re: OTbagpipes (wasRe: Musical languistics - Mass Reply)

In a message dated 2003:06:13 03:45:41 AM, Padraic (elemtilas@YAHOO.COM)
quotes me & writes:

>>     Oh I forgot to say that these pipes are
>> modern Scottish and custom-made.
>> Has a bloody tritonal chord drone! Very odd,
>> eery sounding for screaming bagpipes.
>
>You mean a tritone out of one pipe? Trez kewel!
>That's very similar to the regulator found on
>union pipes. The regulators are three (or perhaps
>four) extra pipes with free reeds in chambers
>that are sounded via keys. It allows the piper to
>augment the tune with chordal accompaniment or,
>given sinisterity, a moving bass line. All that
>in addition to the usual drones and extended
>chanter range. Very sweet sound, too. Probably
>the best sounding of all pipes. I suspect that
>the regulators could be easily designed to accept
>"odd" reeds that give chords other than the
>usual.
    I guess so. I wasn't gonna get too close to that monster.

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