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- From: "Peter S. Bushnell" <PETBUSH@NERVM.BITNET>
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 09:06:24 -0400 (EDT)
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- Back in 1977 when I was in Edinburgh I bought a practice chanter with what appe
- ared to be a rubber reed. I have yet to get much of a sound out of it.
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- However, in 1982 while in Santiago de Compostela, Spain I bought a gaita (a one
- drone Spanish bagpipe) and did no problem getting a correct sound out of the c
- hanter or the drone. There were other problems to consider but not that of pro
- ducing a sound. Also, one does not use pressure from just blowing to get a sou
- nd going out of the chanter. You blow up the bag and then use pressure from sq
- ueezing the bag to produce the sound.
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- Currently my early music activities involve playing recorder (I have a grad. de
- gree in it), ren. flutes, krummhorns and shawms with some singing thrown in.
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- Peter S. Bushnell
- Music and Latin America Monograph Cataloger
- University of Florida Libraries
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