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

iscrews l' "Hanuman J Y S Czhang":

> >Ah, that would be England, yesno? ;) [The
> >English
> >greatpipe is a wonder, and no mistake! Not as
> >skirling, though.]
>
>     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.

Padraic.


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