Alba2usa
06-30-2005, 09:27 AM
Hi there, questions for tenor drummers and or Lead tips playing big bass sections with four or even five tenors.
Which note/s on the chanter scale are you tuning to?
We all know depending on weather conditions that the pipes have to be tuned accordingly, so...
Do you tune, 'adjust' your tenors to your pipe section on the day of?
Or, do you 'pre-set' them according to your Pipe Major's preferred 'pitch'?
Do you start with a 'root' (lowest) tenor for a reference pitch, then go up the scale with the rest of them?
Or, do you 'tune each tenor to a specific note on the chanter?
What intervals do you prefer depending on how many tenors you have?
In the case of four or five tenors what determines your choice of intervals between say four tenors on the one octave 9-note chanter scale?
Last but not least, are we heading towards (what we call in mainstream music a full concert kit) with a whole octave of tom-toms with a tenor on every note of the chanter?
Don't laugh it could be coming.
I'd appreciate some informed feed-back.
Cheers Hamish
Which note/s on the chanter scale are you tuning to?
We all know depending on weather conditions that the pipes have to be tuned accordingly, so...
Do you tune, 'adjust' your tenors to your pipe section on the day of?
Or, do you 'pre-set' them according to your Pipe Major's preferred 'pitch'?
Do you start with a 'root' (lowest) tenor for a reference pitch, then go up the scale with the rest of them?
Or, do you 'tune each tenor to a specific note on the chanter?
What intervals do you prefer depending on how many tenors you have?
In the case of four or five tenors what determines your choice of intervals between say four tenors on the one octave 9-note chanter scale?
Last but not least, are we heading towards (what we call in mainstream music a full concert kit) with a whole octave of tom-toms with a tenor on every note of the chanter?
Don't laugh it could be coming.
I'd appreciate some informed feed-back.
Cheers Hamish