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2nd April 09, 09:33 PM
#8
Saw it just a couple of minutes into the episode.
Well, Brian was wiggling his fingers in time with the notes, which is better than Jimmy Doohan did in the movie. :-) Nice tribute.
NITPICK ALERT! (Really, really nitpicking! Non-pipers wouldn't notice these.)
1) Brian's hands (paws?) were reversed. Normally a piper with drones over the left shoulder has the right hand as the lower hand. It's just ergonomically more comfortable (easier for the left hand to reach the high-hand of the chanter). Not that there aren't pipers around that play left-shoulder-drones and high-right-hand. It's just a little unusual.
2) Regardless of the placement of his hands (paws), he was opening both low- and high-hand notes at the same time, which would be 'false fingering' the notes, resulting in poor tone for the higher notes (generally flat). Also, with the high hand fingers open, the low-hand note wouldn't sound. (With the higher finger hole uncovered, that note would sound first).
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