I have a concert pitch chanter which Alain Froment made for me back in 1988. It sounds and plays well, but I have always had to use (what to me is) a non-standard fingering compared with my other chanters for it to play the C natural in tune - basically lifting the two middle fingers of the right hand fully and partially lifting the little finger of that hand also.
Do any other Froment chanter owners have a similar problem, or are your chanters ok with ‘standard’ fingering - if, indeed, there is such a thing?
The first reed I had in my chanter would only play C Nat. in tune with (rh player) index finger on left hand, and index and middle fingers on right hand. I was scolded at a Tionol for playing this way and I went to NPU with the question. The answer I received back was similar to Mr. Gumby’s, and was accompanied by three different uilleann pipe tutor fingering charts, with three different fingerings. Do what works!!! In my case, a reed change changed the fingering, and bag pressure helps keep it in tune.
a certain type of reed scrape helps a lot with the c natural.bring the scrape down to the bridle and if you still have a poor note then widen the scrape at the base of the reed until the note comes in,this works on a lot of chanters but some will only play with the g and f sharp holes open and even then the note is weak.allan moller.