Re: Highland pipes

on 3/3/01 8:53 PM, tuning@yahoogroups.com at tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> To my shame I am quite ignorant of Highland pipe tuning though I have a
> big repertoire of pieces arranged for guitar. I know that the thirds are
> unusual and I often find the octaves to be compressed in some way but
> maybe that's just the playing of the journeymen on the streets of
> Edinburgh.

The 7th is pretty wild too. Somewhere in my computer files, I have a URL of
an online article regarding the tuning of the Highland pipes, I'll try to
find it and post it.

What tuning/s are you using for pipe tunes on guitar? I use DADGAD and
sometimes also EADEAE or DADEAE.
>
> The Dhomnaill daughter is Maighread Ni Dhomnaill and she had a Christmas
> song with Donal Lunny called Third Carol For Christmas Day.

Hasn't she done an album with Triona as well?

Seth

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Seth Austen wrote:

>
> The 7th is pretty wild too. Somewhere in my computer files, I have a URL of
> an online article regarding the tuning of the Highland pipes, I'll try to
> find it and post it.
>
> What tuning/s are you using for pipe tunes on guitar? I use DADGAD and
> sometimes also EADEAE or DADEAE.

I assume you mean low to high for the tunings. The one I can add to that is DAAEAE low to high,
called the pibroch tuning in some circles. Check out Tony McManus's website. He uses the pibroch
tuning and is quite the wizard at fast dance music on the guitar. I use drop D mostly.

Best Wishes

on 3/6/01 7:37 PM, tuning@yahoogroups.com at tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 12
> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 19:01:00 +0000
> From: Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@which.net>
> Subject: Re: Re: Highland pipes

Alison,

> I assume you mean low to high for the tunings.

Yes, that is what I meant. Sorry, I should have specified that.

>The one I can add to that is
> DAAEAE low to high,
> called the pibroch tuning in some circles. Check out Tony McManus's website.
> He uses the pibroch
> tuning and is quite the wizard at fast dance music on the guitar.

I will check out his website. I already have two CDs featuring his playing,
on one he accompanies Alistair Frasier, the other is one of his solo albums.
His fiddle/pipes style ornamentation is truly astounding.

I'll have to try out that tuning as well.

Seth
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause
and reflect."
-Mark Twain