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COMMENT(S): Drone Appropriate Tuning of the Highland bagpipe chanter

Published: January 01, 2008
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Nice article! If readers would like to hear examples of the "Traditional" and "Modern" scales synthesized with precise frequency ratios, please visit my web page at: http://www.umich.edu/~emacpher/pipes/acoustics/hearscales.html In 1998, I did some careful analysis of the chanter tuning of the soloists on the 1996 Piping Centre recital CDs, and confirmed that they mostly used the Modern scale, although there seemed to be some personal taste involved in tuning high A and (sometimes) low G. The sharp "Traditional" D and high G were not observed. Data at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~emacpher/pipes/acoustics/chanterdata.html
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