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Chanter
Finger Spacings
for Practice
Chanters, Chanters and Electronic Chanters
First a note on how Highland,
Smallpipe and Practice chanters' tone holes are named. Most of the rest
of the music world names the note produced when your finger is down, the tone
hole that is last covered toward the bottom or base end of the instrument.
Exceptions to this, like a chanter or a recorder, have some lower tone holes
covered just to keep the instrument in pitch, as you remove notes above the
lower covered holes.
Below the note names in red, are the names of the notes produced when you have
your finger on that note hole.
Highland,
Smallpipe and Practice chanters name the holes differently. There are
normally 9 notes that you play on these chanters. To add some spice to
these nine notes and to produce a "tongued effect", like what other wind instrument
players can do by stopping their instrument with their tongue, there are many
grace note systems that have been developed for the pipes.
It is easier to describe what fingers to use in these grace note patterns if
the fingers and holes are named by what note it produces when raising that finger
off of a chanter hole, those are shown in blue below.
Each finger will have its own name. So a grace note pattern may say to
play high A, low A and then D.
You would raise your finger for high
A and then put it back down. You would raise
your finger for the low A
and then put it back down. You would raise your finger for the D
and then put it back down.
So a chanter's
tone holes are actually named as seen in blue,
in the figure below.
Top
Top
High Back G High Back A
F
High G
E
F
D
E
C
D
B
C
A B
G
A
All Fingers on= Low G
Bottom
Bottom
Please
note the groupings below in the left column of the table.
* Highland Pipe Chanter
| Rosewood Regular | Rosewood Long | Tru Tone Regular | Tru Tone Long | Dunbar Regular | Dunbar Long | Dunbar
Chanter* |
Walsh Regular | Walsh Long | |
| Total Length | 48.5 | 57.5 | 45.95 | 53.95 | 47.3 | 49.4 | 35.9 | 46.6 | 54 |
| Left Hand and Thumb Distance from E-high A | 5.6 | 6.3 | 5.7 | 6.15 | 5.4 | 6.55 | 6.25 | 5.4 | 6.55 |
| Left Hand Distance from E-G | 4. 25 | 4.85 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 4.35 | 5.05 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
| Between HandsD-E | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.425 | 2.6 | 2.525 | 2.3 | 2.7 |
| Right Hand Distance from A-D | 8.3 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.35 | 8.5 | 8.425 | 7.75 | 8.35 |
| Distance
A to Bottom |
4.9 | 12.2 | 4.8 | 12.15 | 4.65 | 4.7 | 11.8 | 5 | 11.65 |
| Actual A Pitch with same reed | A+20cents | A-50cents | Bb | Bb-20cents | Bb | Bb | * | Bb | Bb |
Walsh child practice chanter: The
distance from the top of the top hole to the bottom of the lowest hole
is 5.5 inches. The distance between the center of the top hole and the
center of the lowest hole is 5.25 inches.
Gibson regular practice chanter: The
distance from the top of the top hole to the bottom of the lowest hole
is 6 1/16 inches. The distance between the center of the top hole and the
center of the lowest hole is 5 7/8 inches.It is 17 1/8 " total length.
Gibson long practice chanter: The distance
from the top of the top hole to the bottom of the lowest hole is 6 1/8
inches. The distance between the center of the top hole and the center
of the lowest hole is 5 7/8 inches.
The distance between the center of the
top hole and the center of the lowest hole.
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|
| Total Length | 39.95 | 22.5 | 47.2 | 35.8 | 36 | 36.05 |
| Left Hand and Thumb Distance from E-high A | 6.675 | 6.25 | 6.15 | 6.2 | 6.325 | 5.85 |
| Left Hand
Distance from E-G |
4.75 | 4.55 | 4.5 | 4.35 | 4.5 | 4.05 |
| Between HandsD-E | 2.55 | 2.65 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.65 | 2.625 |
| Right Hand
Distance from A-D |
8.55 | 8.4 | 8.15 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.25 |
| Distance G to Bottom | 5.7 | 3.2 | 9.75 | 12.25 | 12 | 10.6 |
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