Thursday, August 1, 2019

Orca: On with recording my Tune Tutorials based on The College of Piping's Tutor books, and re my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" CD in 2020 ... and next A) Harbin book of poetry, B) Bagpiping, and C) World University and School ahead ... hopefully with monies to begin the BPPE licensing process, Now I have a Scottish Small Pipes' B flat chanter allowing me to play in tune with Great Highland Bagpipe chanter, as well as GHB practice chanters, in addition to an A chanter and a D chanter . . . "North Atlantic whale: Good working book title "TO the DANCE or the POOLS? ~VIRTUALLY!: HOW DIFFERENT it is to SOAK at HARBIN, than to REALIZE it in VIRTUAL REALITY," Seems to be another great Google Maps with images' beginning (link: https://twitter.com/googlemaps/status/1156570999502069761) to virtually soaking in warm pool from home BATHTUBS #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin esp re upcoming book of poetry "To the Dance or the Pools?~Virtually!" @WUaSPress


Hi M,

My new B flat Scottish Small Pipes' chanter arrived in the Canyon PO recently (re yellow slip) and I picked it up on Tuesday!

On with recording my Tune Tutorials based on The College of Piping's Tutor books, and re my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" CD in 2020  ... and next Harbin book of poetry (re working title below), Bagpiping, and World University and School ahead ... hopefully with monies to begin the BPPE licensing process. Looking forward too to lessons with Finlay beginning on the 7th.

Very glad you're on Cuttyhunk together with Peg ... enjoy the wonderful life you generate together on Gosnold's Isle! Am an appreciator of it and you, Ma!

L, Scott

North Atlantic whale: Good working book title "TO the DANCE or the POOLS? ~VIRTUALLY!: HOW DIFFERENT it is to SOAK at HARBIN, than to REALIZE it in VIRTUAL REALITY" * Previous @WorldUnivAndSch Hangout Conversations (link: https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch) youtube.com/user/WorldUniv… ~
@WUaSPress
 too (link: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/north-atlantic-right-whale-good-working.html) ~

- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1155942226905587714 -


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Seems to be another great Google Maps with images' beginning (link: https://twitter.com/googlemaps/status/1156570999502069761) twitter.com/googlemaps/sta… to virtually soaking in warm pool from home BATHTUBS #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin esp re upcoming book of poetry "To the Dance or the Pools?~Virtually!"
@WUaSPress

@scottmacleod

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https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1156702588730953729


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Viewable in Google DAYDREAM / cardboard digital mask (but not yet for ethnographic-wiki-virtual-world-graphy)!




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Now I have a Scottish Small Pipes' B flat chanter allowing me to play in tune with Great Highland Bagpipe chanter, as well as GHB practice chanters, in addition to an A chanter and a D chanter.

Next step in Tune Tutorials, besides recording the remaining tunes in the CoP Blue Tutorial, Volume 3, is to provide a SSP tutorial for using the combination drone on the Walsh Small Pipes for each of the 3 chanters, and re the chord I came newly make with the drones. This will inform too which tunes in which keys of GHB sheet music one can play with the SSP. :)



And how best to build toward A level piping for my SSP CD in 2020 as well, and on all 3 chanters newly! Playing and practicing!



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Hi Barbara, Heather, Patti and All,

Glad to have recorded newly some Scottish Small Pipes' Tune Tutorials on both A & D chanters both in Google video Hangouts, which ends tomorrow!, but will be replaced with Google Meet, I think. I've recorded all of The College of Piping's Green Tutor Volume 1 in A & D here - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/cape-cod-national-seashore-video-tune.html - and here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/burn-watercourse-playing-practicing-and.html - with some photos of you as well. And I've recorded thus far half of The College of Piping's Blue Tutor Volume 3 on the A chanter newly with WavePad (with much better audio re MacBook Air's microphone than in Hangouts) and then uploaded these to SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/scottmacleod-com. May record too The College of Piping's 'Gold' (yellow actually, probably because a gold cover would have been too dear:) Tutor Volume 4 - Piobaireachd (classical music) - too on all 3 chanters. Will add to Scottish Small Pipes wiki subject at World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - and perhaps Bagpipe Tutorials too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials.

Just received a new Walsh SSP chanter in B flat from Antigoniah, Nova Scotia, Canada in the mail, I'm very glad to say, so now I can play with the Great Highland Bagpipe on the SSPs ... eg with learners on the GHB practice chanter +!

Next step in said SSP Tune Tutorials, besides recording the remaining tunes in the CoP Blue Tutorial, Volume 3, is to create a SSP tutorial for using the combination drone on the Walsh Small Pipes for each of the 3 chanters, and re the chord I came newly make with the drones. This will probably inform too which tunes in which keys of GHB sheet music - that is, in The College of Piping's Tutors where all 3 chanters can play all sheet music, but upon adding the chord drone using the combo drone, I think only certain tunes on the sheet music will be playable (depending on the key they're in - where

I found these videos particularly helpful -

Key Signatures Made Easy -
https://youtu.be/G20foMzvczc

The Circle of Fifths - How to Actually Use It -

- accessible from - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/algol-just-saw-composer-leif-segerstams.html) :) Am learning the new possibilities further the SSP (compared with the GHB) in all of this. 

And how best to build toward A level piping for my SSP CD in 2020 as well, and on all 3 chanters newly! Playing and practicing! 

May explore writing out bagpipe sheet music in the free MuseScore too and re OpenBand Music - since MuseScore specifically has a bagpipe register (but writing doublings and grace notes isn't yet obvious)!
Seeking to create a wonderful SSP "Honey in the Bag" CD in 2020 as well. 

How are all of your summers going - and music-wise too? :) (Just some musings about the SSP here :)

Back in the land of Canyon, California 94516, after leaving the waters of Cuttyhunk island, Massachusetts 02713, and cheers, 
Scott




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The Great Highland Bagpipe is in B flat, and that's it, folks! But it's a funny B flat because it's called Piper's A, and rather than being tuned to 440 Hz (and its octave variants), it can be tuned to around 466 (some variation here, waver in the air too:), but, believe it or not, - around 1996, the Shott's and Dykehead Pipe Band won the Worlds (World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow with a 496 tuning) ... So the GHB's 3 drones are also tuned to Piper's A, that is B flat - and there's 1 bass drone and 2 tenor drones. So, on the GHB chanter, there's a low A and and high A, and the 3 GHB drones are tuned to A - well B flat again, and then there's the skirl and its overall remarkable sound, and much more in these regards. Pipers, I'll interpret here, went back to basics, say beginning in the 1950s with the College of Piping's Green Tutor, and codified fingering, as well as began focusing in depth on tuning and reeds and so much related - and further created their own culture. And GHB pipes spend much much much time on reeds - it's really quite an art. But how did Piper's A get to be a B flat? My hypothesis: in that not playing with other orchestral instruments to speak of, GHB piping culture sought a brighter and brighter (so sharper sound), and gradually through the centuries even, it migrated up a half step, with nothing to bring nomenclature in line with tuning forks. But I look forward to other interpretations! Piping culture and Pipers have long been in their own musical world ... and this continues through cultural time, and the centuries! Independence from musical orthodoxy? Sort of by default (because I dare say, some Scots would look a little askance at Piper's A being a B flat - since Scottish society seeks to integrate with societies in general, and even 'society' around the world. (A counter-perspective, anyone?:)

Here's a taste of the Worlds from 2018 - 
https://youtu.be/MU9-eMKLggA - by the Vale of Atholl pipe band (you live on Athol avenue, Bruce and Patti, n'est-ce pas?:), for the B flat ... as well as a glimpse into a main form of modern-day GHB bagpiping 'culture.' And The Worlds are coming up again - https://www.theworlds.co.uk/ - on 8/16 & 17! Will anyone be in Scotland then? And attending even?

The Scottish Small Pipes are new (and according to some they began in a new way in the early 1980s - around '83, I've heard) - using the same fingering as the GHB, but border pipes, which are akin, have been around for centuries ... and re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes ... Seeking some further versions of this history at some point. And one of these summers, I may travel to Walsh Bagpipes on Nova Scotia, to learn further of this history. 

A little GHB ethno-musical exegesis from an American (lots of Rs in this pronunciation) perspective, :)
Scott
May blog about some of this tomorrow - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping - :)


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At end of this video, commentator says: "Bands are playing at a higher pitch these days ... " (per emails above)


Inveraray and District | MSR @ 2017 World Pipe Band Championships

https://youtu.be/4VHW4TLjqvY






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