Notes on the Regulator?

Uilleann Pipes
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Curious. I need to kill time… for a freaking year until I get my set, so why not?!

Cheers and good singing, Joseph E. Smith!
Armand

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Would anyone have a similar diagram for a Bb set? - I don’t know that much about the arcane magic of music theory… :confused:

/Morten

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On a Bb chanter the notes, from top down, would be: Bb, A, G, F, Eb, D, C, B, Bb.

So the notes on the Bb tenor regulator, from top down, would be: G#, G, F, Eb, D.

The notes on the Bb baritone regulator, from top down, would be: F, Eb, D, Bb.

The notes on the Bb bass regulator, from top down, would be: G#, G, F, Eb.

djm

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By convention, we refer to the notes on any chanter in the same fashion. So, that diagram above for regs is good for all sets.

Bottom ‘D’, in this system, is the way to refer to the lowest note for all pitches of chanters. One advantage is that this allows us to use one set of written music, all based on a bottom ‘D’.

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Just to nit-pick, in keeping with the Bb key signature (and just intonation), it’s Ab (instead of G#).

No E

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:laughing: Thanks, Larry. I can never remember which way to go. Is it flats rising and sharps descending?

djm

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…this would make a good tune title, composed for the regs maybe? :stuck_out_tongue:

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  • I know. I was just curious about the “real notes” ( I could of course just have pulled out the tuner and check them one by one, but I’m lazy…)

Morten

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There aren’t many could rely on that method for a conclusive result :cry:

PD.