Hi all - wondering if anyone might be able to offer some insight into the way that Donald MacLeod played his crunluaths in Struan Robertson's Salute, on Pipe Major Donald MacLeod Vol. 2.
His taorluaths are exactly what I'd expect - fast, but with clarity, all the notes discernable. No surprise. But when he gets to his crunluaths, he slows and opens up the first part of the crunluath (which is the taorluath minus the final E gracenote), and then he rips the dre at full speed to complete the crunluath. The effect (of really emphasizing those two low Gs) is interesting and sounds cool, but very different from what I have been taught and what I hear from most/all top players today.
Is this just an older style of crunluath, or an evolutionary step from perhaps what it was a hundred years ago and what it is now, or just Donald MacLeod deciding to do it the way he thought was best? I know there is a lot of room for expression and interpretation in piobaireachd, but not sure where to place this.
Thanks!
Doug
PS: I did just run across this, which does talk a bit about it. http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/...d.php?t=110161
And one last note: listening to Donald MacLeod's version of MacLeod's Controversy on his Vol. 8 tutorial CD, his crunluaths there sound a lot more like I hear from most everyone today.
His taorluaths are exactly what I'd expect - fast, but with clarity, all the notes discernable. No surprise. But when he gets to his crunluaths, he slows and opens up the first part of the crunluath (which is the taorluath minus the final E gracenote), and then he rips the dre at full speed to complete the crunluath. The effect (of really emphasizing those two low Gs) is interesting and sounds cool, but very different from what I have been taught and what I hear from most/all top players today.
Is this just an older style of crunluath, or an evolutionary step from perhaps what it was a hundred years ago and what it is now, or just Donald MacLeod deciding to do it the way he thought was best? I know there is a lot of room for expression and interpretation in piobaireachd, but not sure where to place this.
Thanks!
Doug
PS: I did just run across this, which does talk a bit about it. http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/...d.php?t=110161
And one last note: listening to Donald MacLeod's version of MacLeod's Controversy on his Vol. 8 tutorial CD, his crunluaths there sound a lot more like I hear from most everyone today.
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