{"id":3272,"date":"2016-05-16T21:07:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2016-05-16T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:09:32","slug":"be-flat-or-rather-bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3272","title":{"rendered":"Be flat, or rather, Bb."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My band here in Lubbock, the Llano Estacado (and District) Pipe Band (LEAD Pb), has recently switched from playing at A 482 Hz to playing at A 467 Hz, otherwise known as Bb. It is a glorious pitch to play at. I&#8217;m playing some 1960ish Sinclair pipes with its original chanter with a Shawn Husk chanter reed. I&#8217;ve Selbie tenor drone reeds and a Redwood bass drone reed. I think I need to spruce up the tenors a bit to match the bass. Hear below and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/glasgow_troys.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Glasgow Police Pipers &amp; Troy&#8217;s Wedding<\/a><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3272-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/glasgow_troys.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/glasgow_troys.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/glasgow_troys.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mo-ghile-mear_nellies_rigger.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Mo Ghile Mear, Nellie&#8217;s, and Ger the Rigger<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3272-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mo-ghile-mear_nellies_rigger.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mo-ghile-mear_nellies_rigger.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mo-ghile-mear_nellies_rigger.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My band here in Lubbock, the Llano Estacado (and District) Pipe Band (LEAD Pb), has recently switched from playing at A 482 Hz to playing at A 467 Hz, otherwise known as Bb. It is a glorious pitch to play at. I&#8217;m playing some 1960ish Sinclair pipes with its original chanter with a Shawn Husk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Be flat, or rather, Bb.<\/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":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dronesounds","category-ghbsolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","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=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}