{"id":840,"date":"2011-04-10T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=840"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:54:16","slug":"gellaitry-with-colin-kyo-naill-and-kron-chanters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"Gellaitry with Colin Kyo, Naill, and Kron chanters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The playing isn&#8217;t that great because this was the 3rd time I&#8217;ve practiced in a month, and it was pretty sparse before that; oh well. Drone reeds are Kinnaird bass, Colin Kyo tenors in Tim Gellaitry pipes. All chanter reeds were Gilmour unless stated otherwise. I can no longer play a birl, so that&#8217;s nice. E grace note is slowly making a comeback, finally. Also, no one else was home so I got to play in a bigger room. The Zoom H2 was placed on top of a free standing bookcase.<\/p>\n<p>The reed in the african blackwood Colin Kyo is new, so it&#8217;s crowing a bit on high A.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gellaitryacklandkyoabwgilmour.mp3\">Calista Anne McLaurin (waltz) and the Swallow&#8217;s Tail (reel)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gellaitryacklandkyoabwgilmour2.mp3\">Alan MacPherson of Mosspark (jig)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend&#8217;s Naill ca. 2000 was setup a long time ago with a Caldwell reed I&#8217;ve had forever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gellaitrykinnairdkyonaill2000gilmour.mp3\">David Crosbie Miller, Battle of Waterloo, and 51st Highland Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gellaitrykinnairdkyonaill2000gilmour2.mp3\">Calista Anne McLaurin, Iron Man, Congress Reel, Gravel Walk, Bush Reel (I think)<\/a> &lt;&#8211; This one kind of sucks, you can tell from the amplified ending.<\/p>\n<p>This is a poly Kron, #219, so it is one of the original Kron poly chanters before the modification around #600 which apparently fixes a potential flat F# (of which this one obtained used has the F carved). I like this chanter! I wish my newer one fit in the stock! I&#8217;ll have to save up some dough and go bug Tim. :o) The E is just tad sharp, oops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gellaitrykinnairdkyokron219gilmour.mp3\">Sweet Maid of Mull and Farewell to the Creeks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reed in the Kron was brand new too, so here&#8217;s what setting up a new reed looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/newreedtuning.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-841\" title=\"newreedtuning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/newreedtuning-300x112.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/newreedtuning-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/newreedtuning.png 874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The playing isn&#8217;t that great because this was the 3rd time I&#8217;ve practiced in a month, and it was pretty sparse before that; oh well. Drone reeds are Kinnaird bass, Colin Kyo tenors in Tim Gellaitry pipes. All chanter reeds were Gilmour unless stated otherwise. I can no longer play a birl, so that&#8217;s nice. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gellaitry with Colin Kyo, Naill, and Kron chanters<\/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-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghbsolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}