{"id":3722,"date":"2017-08-28T15:14:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T20:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2017-09-06T07:26:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T12:26:33","slug":"poly-or-blackwood-chanter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3722","title":{"rendered":"Poly or Blackwood Chanter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked if there were tonal differences between poly and blackwood chanters. I said, &#8220;Maybe, but you wouldn&#8217;t know which one was which.&#8221; See if you can tell the difference and perhaps which one is which. The two recordings below are EXACTLY the same setup (Chris Terry drones, <a href=\"https:\/\/rwreeds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redwood tenor reeds<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisarmstrong.co\/x-trem-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X-TREME bass reed<\/a>, the SAME John Elliott chanter reed {<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundsupreme.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sound Supreme<\/a>, not G1}, L&amp;M hide bag, same recording session, same original mp3 file, and the same standing position as best as I could remember) except one was recorded using a poly <a href=\"http:\/\/colinkyobagpipes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Kyo chanter<\/a> and the other using a blackwood Colin Kyo chanter. The chanters are roughly the same &#8220;older&#8221; vintage and both came in just shy of 481 Hz (modern Kyo chanters come in under 480 Hz in my experience). Both had tape on high G and the poly also had tape on E. The recordings are a bit drone heavy and I slightly regret that, but oh well. It&#8217;ll go toward correcting the balance of all those professional recordings where the drones are almost inaudible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fair_maid-arnish_light_1.mp3\">Fair Maid &amp; Arnish Light 1<\/a><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3722-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fair_maid-arnish_light_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fair_maid-arnish_light_1.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fair_maid-arnish_light_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fair_maid-arnish_light_2.mp3\">Fair Maid &amp; Arnish Light 2<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3722-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fair_maid-arnish_light_2.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fair_maid-arnish_light_2.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/fair_maid-arnish_light_2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check the comments for the which is which!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked if there were tonal differences between poly and blackwood chanters. I said, &#8220;Maybe, but you wouldn&#8217;t know which one was which.&#8221; See if you can tell the difference and perhaps which one is which. The two recordings below are EXACTLY the same setup (Chris Terry drones, Redwood tenor reeds, X-TREME bass reed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poly or Blackwood Chanter?<\/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":[21,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bagpipe-sound-research","category-dronesounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722","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=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3729,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}