I managed to get my regular drone setup tuned to the B on my MacLellan A440 chanter and the baritone drone tuned to an E, using a Wygent double tongued bass reed plugged into a Dunbar bass drone reed seat extender. The A440 chanter is a little wonky to reed anyway, more so when you have to tape off most of the tone holes at the bottom of the chanter to get a low F# instead of low G. Needless to say, I only got 3 (maybe 4) notes in tune: B, E, F# and sort of low F#. All the other notes are, well, I couldn’t really tell if they were out of tune or in tune. D is WAY out of tune and the low A was doing very funky things. Anyways, if you’re interested, here’s a scale:<\/p>\n
Scale<\/a><\/p>\n And here is some non-music I made up trying to only play mostly the in tune notes, F#, E, and B. Take note, those aren’t low A’s, they’re B’s! The drones are tuned to B, not A, except of course the baritone tuned to E.<\/p>\n Non-music<\/a><\/p>\n Below is the tuning if you wanted to tune your B to about 532\/533 with normal tuning for the other notes. Next to it (after the hyphen) is the tuning with the B tuned to the same frequency as the regular tuning, but the frequency of the other notes comes from a recording of a soloist employing the Bagad band B chanter tuning (drones tuned to the B, not A – like I tried to do in the above 2 recordings). The accuracy of the other notes with the B chanter tuning is within the ability of\u00a0Audacity<\/a>to provide the right frequency.<\/p>\n low G – 413 Hz – 402 Hz<\/p>\n low A – 473 – 478<\/p>\n B – 532 – 533<\/p>\n C – 591 – 597<\/p>\n D – 630 – 634<\/p>\n E – 709 – 712<\/p>\n F – 788 – 801<\/p>\n high G – 828 – 828<\/p>\n high A – 946 – NA<\/p>\n Any info on how to tune the chanter with the drones tuned to B would be greatly appreciated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I managed to get my regular drone setup tuned to the B on my MacLellan A440 chanter and the baritone drone tuned to an E, using a Wygent double tongued bass reed plugged into a Dunbar bass drone reed seat extender. The A440 chanter is a little wonky to reed anyway, more so when you … Continue reading Bagad chanter tuning trial<\/span>