{"id":39,"date":"2008-05-03T22:51:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T04:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=39"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:11:04","slug":"smallpipes-in-a-with-1-drone-e-not-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Smallpipes in A with 1 drone = E (not A!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loan out my smallpipes to students, at least I have recently, so they can get used to the mechanics before playing the big pipes. I got a set back a few days ago and stuck a drone in (tenor) but it tuned to E not A. So I went with it! Here is me playing Hector the Hero, Sleep Dearie Sleep, and Humours of Ballyloughlin (sp?). Note: you have to sharpen the high G for it to sound good (I think, so I did, though I didn&#8217;t have an A drone to compare it to). Needless to say, my smallpipes are &#8216;composites&#8217; of components from a couple of sets of Ray Hughes smallpipes&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/05032008edronefinal.mp3\">clickhere.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peace, Patrick McLaurin<\/p>\n<p>Bagpipe Setup = Ray Hughes Smallpipe in A &#8211; Ray Hughes Drone Reed &#8211; Ray Hughes Chanter with Walsh D Reed with lots of tape because I should have bought an A Reed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loan out my smallpipes to students, at least I have recently, so they can get used to the mechanics before playing the big pipes. I got a set back a few days ago and stuck a drone in (tenor) but it tuned to E not A. So I went with it! Here is me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smallpipes in A with 1 drone = E (not A!)<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","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\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}