Tag: Issue 81

Michael Grey’s Notes: Pipe Band tribes all have an Aunt Ethel

Michael Grey’s Notes: Pipe Band tribes all have an Aunt Ethel

GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #81, 2016. It’s estimated there are over seven billion people inhabiting our dear blue place — planet earth. That’s a seven and nine absolute zeros. To me, an unimaginable number of anything, let alone a measure of human souls.  And yet, time and […]

Theory Top-Up: compressing tunes with high-Bs

Theory Top-Up: compressing tunes with high-Bs

By TIM CUMMINGS Piping Today #81, 2016. In the previous round of this Theory Top-Up series, we began to look at familiar tunes whose original melodies spanned beyond the nine-note range of the standard Scottish pipe chanter.  The word ‘compression’ was introduced as a way of describing the process of […]