"The Pumpkin's Fancy"

[ritaxis]

Instrumental music is usually good for writing to because I don't get distracted by the words.  So I put on a Wicked Tinkers CD.

How in the <i>hell</i> do you get bent notes with a bagpipe?  I am not imagining this.  I am not interpreting grace notes as bent notes, these are definitely bent notes.  On highland pipes, it says here.  No electronic manipulation that I know if.

The heretical bastard Aaron Shaw has a bass tappan (drum) accompaniment to his  very scary, very creepy piobrochead ("A Flame of Wrath," commemmorating the composer. Donald Mor, burning all the people of a village in their homes to avenge the death of his brother, Squinting Patrick).  It just makes it creepier and scarier.  

Comments

[diminishedsheep.livejournal.com]

It's really easy - you just slide your finger up (or down) slowly over the hole. I've done this plenty of times during my concerts - I think you just forgot.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was me being dumb. You know what's dumber? I sent Aaron Shaw a note asking him about it.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

And he sent me a note explaining it and saying it's "illegal" on the highland pipes (but he does it anyway) but that can't can't be right if Jay taught it to you, can it? Isn't he the stickler for the most traditional things? well, maybe not.