I heard that with a special cross fingering, a great reed and a bit of tecnique you can reach the 3rd octave up to G3. Is that true? Does anyone know anything about that?
Maybe G. Woff wrote an article about it time ago…
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Kirk Lynch can get his chanter up into the 3rd octave, he even got mine there once. I’ll be up at his place later this week, I’ll ask him how to do it again at that time.
Jeff
I can get to a third octave E fairly easily using the back D hole
Geoff Wooff wrote a very interesting article for Na Piobari Uilleann recently on third 8ve fingerings, making the usual snide remarks about concert pitch bores and thier inability to play these notes. He draws connections between the Baroque Oboe, which was expected to play 3rd 8ve notes easily, and its accoustically similar counterpart, the (very narrow) flat pitch chanter of olden time.
Also the 1st volume of Na Ceol Eirreann has an earlier article by Geoff where he discusses Uilleann pipe tuning and tone, and engages in some further wide-bore smashing. It seems to be quite related to the first.
On my chanter it is -fairly- easy to reach into the stratosphere and get the third 8ve g, f#, e, and, of course, high d. However, not quite easy enough to consistantly apply to playing actual music with those notes. The 3rd 8ve f# is really fantastic though, when the drones and regs are all tuned and going, its the most in-tune of the notes, and takes hardly more pressure than 2nd 8ve high a. Quite a sound.
Much thanks to Geoff for taking the time to write it all out. looking forward to more.