{"id":314,"date":"2009-01-20T19:25:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T00:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=314"},"modified":"2009-01-21T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T15:32:08","slug":"double-chanter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Double Chanter"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I ran across this<\/a> website and it has a pipe with two chanters. I thought that was awesome. Then I was telling my dad how cool it was and he said, well, you could do that with your smallpipes. I was like, DUH! My smallpipes used to be bellows blown, but are now mouth blown, so I just stick another chanter in the old bellows stock. Here’s a couple tunes in video (quicktime<\/a> format). I taped the top hand of the 2nd chanter.<\/p>\n

Kalabakan – Both hands on one chanter then each hand on its own chanter. Just played the tune straight through leaving each hand where it would be were I only playing one chanter.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Kalabakan video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kalabakan on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Sleep Dearie Sleep – Each hand on its own chanter. Tried to do some harmony.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Sleep Dearie Sleep video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sleep Dearie Sleep on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

The volumes of chanters and drones aren’t matched real well, but hey, it works!\u00a0I had to use a rubber coaster on my leg to keep the top hand chanter from flying off when playing high G\/A.<\/p>\n

The pipes were made by Ray Hughes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I ran across this website and it has a pipe with two chanters. I thought that was awesome. Then I was telling my dad how cool it was and he said, well, you could do that with your smallpipes. I was like, DUH! My smallpipes used to be bellows blown, but are now mouth … Continue reading Double Chanter<\/span> →<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-smallpipes-northumbrian-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}