{"id":359,"date":"2009-02-28T20:42:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T01:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=359"},"modified":"2014-08-08T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T14:00:33","slug":"e-baritone-on-ghb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"E baritone on GHB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I bought a bass drone bottom (imitation ivory mounts, Ni slide) made by Douglas MacPherson<\/a>\u00a0from Soren Larsen, for 2 reasons. One for a friend of mine who has a set of pipes, but no bass drone bottom in case he couldn’t get a replacement (same mounting) and two, because I’ve always wanted to try a baritone drone on the GHB. Well, it worked! I start up all 3 drones, turn off the baritone, then turn off the bass, then restart the baritone, then stop and start all 3 drones again and play through a March I don’t know the name of, Kalabakan which is a Reel in ‘D’, and then a Reel I don’t remember the name of off hand (something about a train or famous bridge) in ‘A’.<\/p>\n

E Baritone GHB Recording<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Instrument:<\/p>\n

1950’s\u00a0ABW\u00a0Hendersons half-mounted with white mounts and Ni ferrules. Inside tenor drone bottom replaced with Douglas MacPherson bass drone bottom. Poly oval hole McCallum chanter.<\/p>\n

Reeds:<\/p>\n

MG tenor reed – outside tenor drone<\/p>\n

MG bass reed + MG 440Hz extender<\/a> – inside baritone drone (E)<\/p>\n

Selbie bass reed – bass drone<\/p>\n

Heavily carved Chris Apps G3 chanter reed.<\/p>\n

Recorded in a carpeted bedroom with a Zoom H2 field recorder. I walk around. Normalized with Audacity.<\/p>\n

Below was added March 3, 2009:<\/p>\n

A table of different pitches obtained by changing drone pieces and reeds. * indicates the setup used in the recording above.<\/p>\n

\"baritonedrone\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, there are many ways to get an E. Depending on reed, drone bore diameter, etc. I haven’t included any sound quality information except for 1 instance where it sounded not so good\/not smooth. It is all kind of voodoo and after doing this, I’m amazed out how lucky I got. If I were to pursue this further, I might have a bass bottom made a little longer than normal so as to maybe be able to use a bass reed to get a D baritone and a tenor reed to get an E baritone. Although, I really have no idea whether it would work well or not.<\/p>\n

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I also tried my Henderson tenor top and bottom split by a bass midsection. My Henderson bass midsection was too big, so I tried my Center 3\/4 bass midsection. I don’t recall what reed I used but it is basically an alto drone. It almost pitched to D, but D 1 octave below chanter D to give an alto drone, instead of 2 octaves below to give a baritone drone. As such, splitting a tenor drone with a middle section may not work.<\/p>\n

This was all mouth blown. When a tenor reed was used, it was pretty much all the way in. When a bass reed was used in a tenor bottom, it was pretty much all the way out. But you get the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I bought a bass drone bottom (imitation ivory mounts, Ni slide) made by Douglas MacPherson\u00a0from Soren Larsen, for 2 reasons. One for a friend of mine who has a set of pipes, but no bass drone bottom in case he couldn’t get a replacement (same mounting) and two, because I’ve always wanted to try … Continue reading E baritone on GHB<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghbsolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}