{"id":4770,"date":"2025-06-10T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2025-06-20T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:16:16","slug":"messing-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4770","title":{"rendered":"Messing around"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I haven&#8217;t really played highland pipes in over 2 years due to a sudden, drastic decrease in control of my left hand due to focal dystonia. Recently, I got a new Jeffers chanter and I&#8217;m really digging it. Every note is very rich in timbre and it is very balanced and in tune with itself. Pitch here with a very easy reed is 485 Hz (ish). Drones are 1950&#8217;s Hendersons I got from Jimmy McIntosh, drone reeds are 480 Hz Overtones, and the chanter reed is by Gilmour.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Set 1: I love having a slightly flat high A! (I set it up this way with a little tape)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-fair-maid-rakish-paddy.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Set 2: Tried to show off more high A. This is a very easy reed so throughout all recordings you can hear me under-blowing high A and high G so that I don&#8217;t accidentally blow the high A sharp.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-laois-gravel.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Set 3: Last tune (Caber Feidh) illustrates the high and low G blown in tune, haha. Did I mention there is NO tape on high G? NONE!!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-murdo-rowan-caber.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Set 4: More high A!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/04-swallow-dancing.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Set 5: Just some jigs, again last tune illustrates low G.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/05-alan-archie-broken-old-warming.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Set 6: More jigs cause that&#8217;s all I can remember, the last one illustrating high and low G again and the stability of the chanter against squealing and squawking even with an easy reed. There&#8217;s a couple funky sounds but those are my fingers, haha.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/06-joseph-mcdonald-eileen-macdonald.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Set 7: Hornpipe and Jigs because I felt like showing off how my fingers don&#8217;t work? I dunno.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/07-redundancy-snuff-herring-laid.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Set 8: MSR because I felt like screwing up the reel, or something.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio src=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/08-kantara-inveraray-rejected-alick.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t really played highland pipes in over 2 years due to a sudden, drastic decrease in control of my left hand due to focal dystonia. Recently, I got a new Jeffers chanter and I&#8217;m really digging it. Every note is very rich in timbre and it is very balanced and in tune with itself. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4770\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Messing around<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghbsolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","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=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4792,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions\/4792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}