Highland Hornpipe

**MadBagpiper** · 3rd March 07, 07:42 PM

I have seen the highland hornpipe at a couple highland games and online. It's baisically just a practice chanter in many different pitches that uses a saxaphone mouthpiece and reed. It is played the exact same as a GHB but the volume can be controlled and it has a jazzy style sound to it so it's an intresting instrument all together.

**Warlock** · 3rd March 07, 08:58 PM

That's an awful lot for plastic. I've been told by the music shops that if you can play a recorder, You can play the bagpipes. Seems the fingerings are the same. Recorders cost a whole lot less.

**MadBagpiper** · 17th March 07, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by Beuth Sim

That's an awful lot for plastic. I've been told by the music shops that if you can play a recorder, You can play the bagpipes. Seems the fingerings are the same. Recorders cost a whole lot less.

The recorder and Bagpipes are 2 very different instruments. Recorders have upwards of 36 notes, bagpipes have 9 notes. Bagpipe fingering and style of playing is completly unique from other wood-wind instruments in terms of movments such as D throws and Tarluths.

**beloitpiper** · 18th March 07, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by MadBagpiper

The recorder and Bagpipes are 2 very different instruments. Recorders have upwards of 36 notes, bagpipes have 9 notes. Bagpipe fingering and style of playing is completly unique from other wood-wind instruments in terms of movments such as D throws and Tarluths.

The recorder may be abe to go into different octaves, but has 9 fingerings just like the bagpipes. They are similar, but the fingerings are not exactly the same.