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A bagpipe practice chanter is a double-reed woodwind instrument, principally used as an adjunct to the Great Highland bagpipe. As its name implies, the practice chanter serves as a practice instrument: firstly for learning to finger the different melody notes of bagpipe music, and (after a player masters the bagpipes) to practice new music.
The chanter of the Great Highland bagpipe. The chanter is the part of the bagpipe upon which the player creates the melody.It consists of a number of finger-holes, and in its simpler forms looks similar to a recorder.
The earliest known description of such an instrument in Britain is in the Talbot manuscript [7] from about 1695. The descriptions of bagpipes mentioned in this early source are reproduced in [8] One of these instruments was a bellows-blown 'Bagpipe, Scotch', with three drones, whose keyless chanter had a one-octave range from G to g, with each note being sounded by uncovering a single hole, as ...
The chanter's tonic is played with the top six holes and the thumb hole covered by fingers. Starting at the bottom and (in the Galician fingering pattern) progressively opening holes creates the diatonic scale. Using techniques like cross-fingering and half-holing, the chromatic scale can be created. With extra pressure on the bag, the reed can ...
It has the same general shape as a soprano, but is larger in all dimensions, resulting in a lower pitch for a given fingering. The F alto is a non- transposing instrument , though its basic scale is in F, that is, a fifth lower than the soprano recorder and a fourth higher than the tenor (both with a basic scale in C).
In Flemish, this bagpipe is also known as schäferpfeife or Doedelzak, as it is similar in appearance. The Flemish pipes have fifth or octave drones, and the fingering system is nowadays generally identical to that of the French Cornemuse du Centre, as this fingering system is very stable in tone throughout the 1.5 octave range of the pipes.
This could be achieved by cross-fingering or half-holing. Pete Stewart has further argued [ 6 ] that the existence of some G major tunes with a nine-note compass from G to a suggests that Border pipes formerly sounded a c natural, rather than c sharp; cross-fingering would then have been needed to sound a c sharp.
English border pipes have been reconstructed by Swayne, and they have in common with the Lowland Scottish pipes above 2-4 drones in a single stock, but the design of the chanter (melody pipe) is closer to the French cornemuse du centre and uses the same "half-closed" fingering system. Cornish bagpipes: an extinct type of double chanter bagpipe ...