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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-04-14 11:33
Maybe it's just a matter of "tradition", just like that "flat chin smiley embouchure" mantra taught in certain parts of the world.
I checked some "instructional" videos about bagpiping and they all cover the RH holes with their fingers' middle joint, not the tip joint. This certainly won'd do much good if you think of the lower joint ringed holes in the clarinet. I'd say it's just "how it is done", just like the bag pipe embouchure (or breathing technique) differs from a clarinet player's.
(one can now theorise why this is so, but apparently bagpipers can play even with half their fingers sawed or chopped off, maybe the godfather of all bag pipe teachers was a carpenter...)
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Ben
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Rusty |
2009-04-10 09:24 |
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tictactux |
2009-04-10 19:48 |
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Rusty |
2009-04-10 21:11 |
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tictactux |
2009-04-14 11:33 |
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Andy Firth |
2013-01-07 11:44 |
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