oleorezinator wrote:
Yes I think that's what the "back bore" of the Lindsay is.
But as I said the Lindsay chanter also has a
mormorka. Does the Kortholt have that as well?
As Lindsay demonstrates it in one of his videos, his chanter has precisely the same feature Bulgarian chanters have always had, the
mormorka.
It's the top fingerhole on the front of the chanter, operated by the upper-hand index finger.
It's not really a tone-hole per se, rather it raises the pitch of any lower note a semitone.
So a Bulgarian chanter giving, without opening the
mormorkaxxx xxxx G
xxx xxxo A
xxx xxoo B
xxx xooo C (natural)
xxx oooo D
xxo oooo E
xoo oooo F#
using the
mormorka gives you a chromatic scale
xxx xxxx G
oxx xxxx G#
xxx xxxo A
oxx xxxo Bb
xxx xxoo B
xxx xooo C (natural)
oxx xooo C#
xxx oooo D
oxx oooo D#
xxo oooo E
oxo oooo F (natural)
xoo oooo F#
ooo oooo G
Then you take off the thumb for high A.
The problem with the Bulgarian chanter is, there's no high G#. Obviously Lindsay has fixed that.
(BTW for convenience of reference I showed the fingering for a Bulgarian chanter giving the same notes as an A SSP chanter. Though not common, I used to own one, the big chanter Bulgarian pipers call
sol or a G chanter. Bulgarian chanters are named from the lowest note, with all fingers down, while Scottish chanters are named from the next-lowest note, with one finger up.)