Get your tuner out Rorybellows!

Uilleann Pipes
1

OK time to put myself up for ridicule . . .

Just occurred to me to make a recording of a MKIV widebore before it went out to show that the B’s are bang in. http://hunterpipes.co.uk/MISCSTUFF/Bs.mp3

Also this was my attempt (chiff passim) at getting an old Williams D in, pretty good except the 1st oct B is flat and the 2nd sharp . . . got the A in though, if you trail 3 fingers on RH.

http://hunterpipes.co.uk/MISCSTUFF/Williams.mp3

OK do your worst . . . . both recordings are 1st take with no great care or attention.

2

hehe the second octave B is actually a shade flat! But not enough to matter, as I think you could match it with a drone easily with a small pressure change. You may have been overblowing it a little and actually pushing it down rather than up, just from the suggestibility. As close as I’ve heard in CP, in any case.

I notice that the Bs are also just intonation Bs rather than ET :slight_smile:
(as they should be of course)

talking strictly about the HP stick, not the Williams which I haven’t listened to yet

3

Very good Sam,they do sound very in tune,all you have to do now is sort out the flat D’s and it’ll be spot on.

RORY

4

Not according to my tuner at 440! You’re a hard man to please aintcha!

5

I might be hard to please but I’d be very pleased with that chanter,it sounds very nice and very in tune. The tuner I have is a cheap guitar tuner and is not to be trusted but to my ear,the chanter sounds great.


RORY