Cheap pipes?

[auld argonian]

re: Cavscout's remarks about the chanter...

...one of the things that I enountered when moving on to a low D whistle and the D flute was the spacing of the holes: I had been using the pads of my fingertips with the other instruments up until then and had to learn "the piper's" style of fingering using more of the finger and less of the pad. It's a definite adjustment for the average woodwind player.

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[jjoseph]

...the pads of my fingertips .... "the piper's" style of fingering using more of the finger and less of the pad. It's a definite adjustment for the average woodwind player.

Amen. My two biggest hurdles moving from a transverse flute to the pipes have been the key change and the blasted straight finger (not fingertips) method of covering the holes. Grrr.