Ewan's Hot Piping Stuff - My Piping Pages

This site contains some of the material that used to be hosted at www-personal.umich.edu/~emacpher/pipes.

I relocated to the University of Western Ontario (London, Ont) from Michigan in January 2009, and that site no longer exists.

As time permits I hope to restore and add more, but I am letting my very, very out-of-date Bagpipe Web Index die.

Acoustics & Tuning

• Many years ago, I did some analysis of gracenote timing.
• Hear the hidden pitches in the sound of the bass drone.
• Some notes on the scale of the GHB chanter.
• Some notes on tuning the GHB chanter using a standard chromatic tuner.
• Generate your own GHB chanter scale and tuning tables
• Bibliography of papers on Bagpipe Acoustics
• Hear various Highland bagpipe chanter tunings
• Hear sweet spot for chanter B and low G.
• Measurements of tuning from the Piping Centre 1996 recital CDs
• Description of the method I used to make the 1996 tuning measurements

Technical tidbits

• The "McWick" UP Demand-Driven Humidifier, hosted (since March 1998!) for bmccall@erols.com