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... The Los Angeles chart is a bit deceiving, for example a couple days ago our humidity was 9%. Though ... minutes. This sudden dry has been the death of many an uilleann reed! But as you say Highland pipes are relatively ...

... it Can’t be MY Fault. I get sent this type of forum thread on a regular basis and I usually answer ... actually attempting it. (Says right on my chart... "No Sharp Objects." :-) And why??... ... - a paraphrase of a wise comment by an Uilleann pipemaker.” I see this post as another ...

Thanks for the info, Michael, Peter, and Richard. Its interesting ... is to play D whistle tunes I should just be going Uilleann for even more range. Although I've read that ... this link to try and re translate the fingering chart. https://www.deivliutaio.com/2-piva-medioevale/praticpiva2-gb.php ...

... Boehm flute, Irish whistle, Irish flute, and uilleann pipes all write the same note as "C" I can't do a proper fingering chart on the computer keyboard but on instruments capable ... and clarinet by its three-finger note. An odd one for me to get used to was the way the various pitches ...

... not to buy it. I can understand the attraction for an uilleann piper of an instrument that you can just take out ... explained the process to me and I worked out a chart to show what needs doing to each reedplate, since ...

... easy, since a lot of stuff isn't written down. For example, most gajda music, be it Thracian (djura), ... is probably half a century behind Highland, Uilleann, and Small pipes. Good luck, Jim PS I tried to post a fingering chart, but can't figure this system out. Contact me ...

... ever played by anybody at any time in history. For that, it's excellent! For a newbie trying to ... For example he gives three entire fingering charts: legato & staccato closed fingering on ... me a far more pragmatic tutor is Learn to play Uilleann Pipes with the Armagh Pipers Club . The ...

... main problem I found was trying to play over charts for Bb/Eb instruments, which often puts you in recorder-unfriendly ... one of the finest Irish trad wind players around, on uilleann pipes, flute and whistle. So there's always hope. ...

... Also not unimportant is to get the logics for yourself right that you basically always play ... use for your D set and since the fingering chart/scale is the same you always play 'concert ... "Concert pitch", as it is applied to uilleann and union pipes, means simply "bell ...

... Also not unimportant is to get the logics for yourself right that you basically always play ... use for your D set and since the fingering chart/scale is the same you always play 'concert ... "Concert pitch", as it is applied to uilleann and union pipes, means simply "bell ...

... semi-closed fingering, I haven't played the uilleann pipes so I really don't know. The chanter has six open holes on the front plus a key for low C, on the back of the chanter there is the ... hand. I'm still waiting for the fingering chart.

... (dunno why, she's English and Scottish) So for Christmas I bought a whistle. First one was ... just a tad sharp, the Walton was off the chart. A slight adjustment brought it solidly to ... some tunes or songs? I need to go over to the Uilleann forum and thank them, after playing a bunch ...

Very cool, that chart, though I wonder if in practice uilleann pipers play the C natural all the way down to that -32 Harmonic position. It would be interesting for somebody to get recordings of various famous uilleann pipers and do pitch analysis and see how they're acutally tuned.

... tuners calibrated to Just Intonation, intended for tuning Highland pipes. Question is, do they ... Bb and B) all the way up to D. Here's a little chart of where the notes of a Highland chanter fall ... back and forth between Highland and uilleann pipes, it's like this: A=D B=E C#=F# D=G ...

... come to mean having more to do with pitch: D. "Concert pitch" for the uilleann pipes is, of course, D as well. I don't recall any Irish usage of "concert" ...