{"id":531,"date":"2009-10-07T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=531"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:00:07","slug":"low-e-and-low-f-instead-of-low-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"low E and low F# instead of low G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of clips of the scale played on the highland bagpipes with the low G substituted for another note. Low A is tuned to 480 Hz + ~10 cents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/lowf.mp3\">Low F#<\/a> &#8211; obtained by taping over one tone hole entirely and taping over the other a little bit for tuning. Grace notes to and from low F# sound and act fairly normal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/lowe.mp3\">Low E<\/a> &#8211; obtained by taping over both tone holes entirely and extending the length of the chanter just a little bit with a ring of tape on the very bottom, less than a centimeter in length. All the grace notes on the bottom hand work well enough, though throws and such don&#8217;t work very well. All the top hand grace notes produce a squeal.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Apps poly chanter with a ridge cut reed. 1950&#8217;s Henderson pipes, Selbie drone reeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of clips of the scale played on the highland bagpipes with the low G substituted for another note. Low A is tuned to 480 Hz + ~10 cents. Low F# &#8211; obtained by taping over one tone hole entirely and taping over the other a little bit for tuning. Grace notes to and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">low E and low F# instead of low G<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bagpipe-sound-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}