{"id":1479,"date":"2012-04-11T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T12:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:42:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:42:17","slug":"the-kron-medalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"The Kron Medalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my solo reed is about done. Any squirreliness you&#8217;ve noticed in the last couple posts where I mention its use can be solely attributed to its lackluster performance. I&#8217;ll have to try that mandrel trick again and see if that helps. But, I used it one last time for this post on the Kron Medalist chanter. In my past attempts at recording this chanter (well, it was a different one that I ended up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=875\" target=\"_blank\">recording with a McLaren synthetic reed<\/a>) I could never get past flat C and F. This is probably because the reeds I was trying weren&#8217;t completely broken in, but they did go fine in other chanters. So I figured, can&#8217;t get any more broken in than this reed so plop it in there and away we go. The first track was meant to exhibit the very awesome high A, except it went sharp about 20 seconds in so you&#8217;ll have to catch a glimpse from the latter two recordings, Song for Winter being a good one, F too, and B, good chanter. Me likes. As it stands, the first recording is just an example of how inconsistent my grips are, one day I&#8217;ll get that tune down. Pipes are the Gellaitry&#8217;s again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pmgeorgeallan_braesofmelinish.mp3\">PM George Allan (Donald MacLeod) and Braes of Melinish<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/songforwinter_maggiesmancakes.mp3\">Song for Winter and Maggie&#8217;s Pancakes (Stuart Morrison &#8211; fiddler with Tannahill Weavers)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/herringwife_donellabeaton.mp3\">Herringwife and Donella Beaton (George Johnstone)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my solo reed is about done. Any squirreliness you&#8217;ve noticed in the last couple posts where I mention its use can be solely attributed to its lackluster performance. I&#8217;ll have to try that mandrel trick again and see if that helps. But, I used it one last time for this post on the Kron &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Kron Medalist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghbsolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}