Good for you!
O Come All Ye Faithful is one of those gems, well-known tunes which happen to fit perfectly on the gamut of the Highland pipes. There's not all that many of them!
Here's my version of O Come All Ye Faithful, played on my Scottish Doublepipes (actually two Gibson practice chanters in a special rig)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8MDtCMlPRQ
A few more carols that fit perfectly on the pipes are
Little Drummer Boy
Good King Wenceslas
O Come Emanuel
We Saw Three Ships
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
We Three Kings
While many other tunes require slight mutation to fit on the pipes
Angels We Have Heard On High
O Christmas Tree
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
And some, well, the pipes just don't have the required notes, though it doesn't stop pipers from hacking through their 'versions' so mutated that they can be hard to recognise
What Child Is This (the worst one, I hear it all the time. Actually all of the correct notes can be played if it's done in the key of D minor, which nobody but me ever seems to do, possibly because all the notes are right, but the octaves have to be compressed).
Last edited by OC Richard; 20th December 13 at 06:03 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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