{"id":2631,"date":"2013-11-06T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T01:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2013-11-15T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T21:32:16","slug":"rjm-chanter-with-a-troy-mcallister-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2631","title":{"rendered":"RJM chanter with a Troy McAllister reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a vlog today! All the tape is off of the RJM chanter\u00a0(except E and high G) and here is some lame playing to prove it.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O9esGUpeOds\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Text from YouTube description:<\/p>\n<p>RJM solo blackwood chanter, tape only on E and high G, tuning spot on at 480 Hz with a day old Troy McAllister chanter reed that was artificially broke in with a bit of spit and a little squeeze at the tips to ease the reed and even less around the sound box to bring the pitch of the middle notes (C# and F#) up a tad.<\/p>\n<p>Roddy MacLeod (designer of the chanter) uses Troy McAllister reeds personally so I figured what better reed is there to get the most out of the RJM chanter?<br \/>\nPlaylist:<br \/>\nBrown Haired Maiden<br \/>\nRossshire Volunteers<br \/>\nArthur Bignold of Lochrosque<br \/>\nDrone retuning as the chanter pitch went up a little or the drone reeds went flat a little, one of the two<br \/>\nKalabakan<br \/>\n?????? Bridge<br \/>\nFlame of Wrath for Squinting Patrick (memorized last week)<\/p>\n<p>MP3s of the sets played in the YouTube video:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/brown_rossshire_bignold.mp3\">Brown Haired Maiden, Rossshire Volunteers, and Arthur Bignold of Lochrosque<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/kalabakan_brdige_flame.mp3\">Kalabakan, Crooked Bridge, and Flame of Wrath for Squinting Patrick<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a vlog today! All the tape is off of the RJM chanter\u00a0(except E and high G) and here is some lame playing to prove it. Text from YouTube description: RJM solo blackwood chanter, tape only on E and high G, tuning spot on at 480 Hz with a day old Troy McAllister chanter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RJM chanter with a Troy McAllister reed<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","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=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}