Bagpipe News

 You don’t have to be very good to get people’s attention.

IN less than two years of playing the bagpipes, Laurencekirk Primary pupil Andrew Clark has ammassed a tremendous amount of silverware.

Eleven-year-old Andrew, who is in P7 and lives at Gallery Lodge, Logie Pert, began chanter lessons with Brechin Pipe Band in February 2005. He was fifth in his first chanter competition at Edzell in the November, then won his next at Pitlochry two months later.

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There are plenty of bagpipers out there, but how many jazz musicians make the bagpipe a part of their repertoire? James Rivers was playing his heart out at the WWOZ Jazz Tent this afternoon. WWOZ is with you for all seven days of Jazz Fest 2008.

Introduction:

Far from being a simple practice chanter, Master Gaita ® is a simple but powerful tool that lets to use the bagpipe fingering to get into and control the MIDI universe, and also to open new ways faced to the learning of bagpipe technique and music. When connected to a computer with its own program, you can, not only to play with any instrument’s sound but also perform with traditional bagpipes’ sound. This is done by using recorded and prepared samples to get a quite near reality sound. The control of the sound volume lets the performance at any time during the day without worring about posible disturbs that the bagpipe loud sound might produce.

The instrument is strongly made on a PVC tube with nine extremely sensitive tactile devices, so only the smooth contact of a finger resting on any of them is needed to activate them. A semi-rigid cable and a little plastic box make the chanter to get firm in a fixed and confortable position as if it were in its stock. A 2.5 meter long cable leaving the plastic box carries the MIDI singnals to the computer or sound module the Master Gaita is connected to.
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