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From: Glenn Weiser
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 13:00:18 -0400
Subject: bagpipes

> From: Rex Deaver [mailto:rdeav~wbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 8:48 PM
> To: harp~oo.garply.com
> Subject: Bagpipe tunes (was Re: Paid Gig
>
>
> At 09:51 AM 5/17/99 -0400, Samuel J. Gravina wrote:
>
> >We have been singing really well lately on all or songs, but "Amazing
> >Grace" is the only song we do that gives me chills. It really is an
> >"amazing" song. It's so simple too.
>
> I have been noticing that the harp does really well on bagpipe
> tunes...which Amazing Grace most certainly is. I know Glenn has some stuff
> on fiddle tunes arranged for harmonica, just wondering if anyone knows of
> anything similar for bagpipe tunes?
>
Amazing Grace is not a pipe tune originally, but an 18th century hym
written by John Newton that pipers always seem to do.
I play some bagpipe tunes on the harmonica. Because the big beasties
only have a nine-note range, you can play all the pipe tunes on the
diatonic (and some would say you can have them all, too). Most tunes are
in the Mixolydian mode, so second position works.
Now somebody has to learn to play a constant 2-draw and octave-tongue
the rest of a pipe tune at the same time by varying the size of the
tongue block.
NOT!

Glenn Weiser