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Author: Mario
Date: 1999-11-15 20:00
A very good friend of mine is an outstanding bagpiper. Being a decent clarinetist myself, we developped this notion that it would be interesting to play together sometimes.
Is there anything out there suitable for Bagpipe and clarinet?
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-11-16 14:59
Mario, the only thing I could find is:
Di Pietro,Rocco (1949-)
Wind quintet
1980
clarinet/ocarina, flute, oboe, horn/bagpipes, bassoon/bagpipes
American Music Center
zampogna or Highland bagpipes
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Author: steve
Date: 1999-11-16 15:37
there is a french folk ww tradition...dance music that uses the binou (french bagpipes), bombarde (a type of oboe/shawm...double reed instrument that may be the loudest instrument known) and the chalameau...the folk clarinet precursor in that part of the world. these are not living traditions, but are being revived by modern folk musicians and academics...I think a band that uses these instruments is called malicorne...and can be web findable....there is a breton festival that features french celtic music, possibly called feste intra-celtique.....lot of this is hard to find....an instructor of woodwinds named bruce gbur plays ww and highland pipes, and presents recitals....I forget where he teaches, but a search for "bruce gbur" on altavista gets him...
s.
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Author: Eoin
Date: 1999-11-16 19:09
The Scottish Bagpipes is an instrument which plays with a very restricted scale of notes. If the instrument is pitched in D, which I think they all are, then the available notes are C, D, E, F#, G, A, B, C, D and that's all! There is also a constant drone note which I think is D. It is difficult to think of any tune that would fit in with this scale. Even a lot of Scottish tunes don't and are mangled when played on the Scottish bagpipes. One possibility is the Irish tune, "She Moved through the fair". It is written in a mode which fits in exactly with the bagpipes scale.
Playing this on clarinet, you will have to be proficient in playing the key of "E major" as the D of the bagpipes appears as an E on your clarinet.
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Author: mad dog
Date: 1999-11-16 20:25
I'm a woodwind player (since 1969) and a bagpiper (since 1989). I have just finished serving a 5-year sentence as pipe-major of my local pipe band. The "Scottish" bagpipe that most peolple think of is the "Great Highland Pipe", or the "piob mhor" in gaelic. The bagpipe chanter plays, basically, a mixolydian scale, with an extra whole-step on the bottem end. Low G to high A. That's it. No accidentals to worry about. In centuries past, the keynote of the chanter, and the note to which the drones were tuned, was an "A". The pitch has steadily risen up to where the chanter/drones are tuned to 474 cps. I believe a concert Bb at A:440 is 466 cps, so the pipes are frequently tuned slightly sharp of Bb. Most competent pipers can play tuned down to 466 cps, which would put a Bb clarinet into the key of C. An alto clarinet or an Eb soprano clarinet plays very well with the pipes, as it puts them in the key of G, which falls nicely under the fingers and, the lower register fingerings for the two instruments almost duplicate each other. Other pipes, such as the various types of scottish small pipes, frequently play in D or A. The "irish" pipes are fairly chromatic, but play most comfortably for me in D, A, and G.
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Author: Willie
Date: 1999-11-17 02:17
Parlor or elbow pipes sound great with most wood winds as they're not nearly as loud as the war pipes as seen on the marching field. These are what you hear in most celtic recordings nowadays.
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