Concert Sounds


Many thanks to Ronan Browne for the first clip

  Lignum wide bore concert chanter 0.6 meg   

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Here are some quick samples of a new MKV concert chanter, with a couple of different reeds in it.  Chanter by itself  In Em  With Drones

And here it is doing something possibly a bit unusual, and not part of the design brief!  It will give a 2nd octave F#by lifting the E finger and leaving the Eb finger on - you can also hear the usual tight F# (a bit brighter and more strident).  This lets you triplet the F#, and also trill F# and E (with the Eb finger) without the usual roar of 2nd octave F# with 3 fingers off.  Strange!

I don't really know where to put this so it's in the flat and concert sections.  True narrow bore (flat) chanter in D made by Peter and recently in for reeding.  Of course this chanter is relatively quiet compared to this which I recorded quickly for comparison, my MK V concert chanter which in common with the flat D above I am playing without due care and attention and also with a bandaged finger after an accident restoring what will hopefully one day be the new workshop . .

Some recordings of K. Pádraig O'Kane's Palosanto old widebore (not the chanter below).  rec1   rec2   rec3   rec4   rec5

K. Pádraig O'Kane's MK V concert chanter with his own reed here

3/4 set Lignum with narrow bore regulators here, if only there was a good piper here to play them. . . .
The clip is to get an idea of how the narrow bore regs sit with the volume of the concert chanter, an accompaniment not a shouting match . . ignore my wonky bag pressure please.

Lignum D narrow bore regulators and concert chanter, trying some unusual chords . . non studio quality recording, captured whilst reeding them up. Clip1  Clip2 Clip3  Clip4

The following  recordings are from the archive.

Busking Stick concert half set 1 meg   Cocobolo concert chanter mp3  1.5 meg    Cocobolo concert half set  mp3 1.2 meg

Mark Neilly sent this in   Hunter D

Some clips recorded whilst tinkering.  Excuse bad playing esp with regs.  Cocobolo chanter with Vera wood drones, great harsh E  3/4 set in Vera wood "busking stick" chanter 
as before with baritone drone off - easier to hear regs

If you want to play in A major you could do worse than one of these (Busking Stick from above set)

Some more of a concert chanter in ebony.  Thanks to Tim Benson for these  Gan Ainm   Choice Wife

Quick  recording warts and all of concert chanter in ebony

Here is a clip of  a 17 key Northumbrian Small Pipe chanter made by Peter some time ago.  He made one prototype, never even keyed it, and then cracked out this belting chanter.
If you want one of these, then tough.  Too fiddly!!  All Mp3's are less than 1meg.

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