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Try the section on Tunes with a Bass in my collection of Scottish flute tunes.

http://www.campin.me.uk/Flute/Webreleas ... /Flute.htm

My ud (Syrian fretless lute)...


Other instruments at http://www.campin.me.uk/Music/Cumbus/

I have a "chalumeau" made by SAMS, who I presume are a Catalan firm (I got it in Barcelona). It sounds great, but with a range of nine notes (C D E F G A B c d) and limited chromatic possibilities (you can crossfinger a B flat, anything else needs half-holing) it has a limited repertoire, ...

I have two G altos and two G sopraninos. They are both very useful for Highland pipe tunes (range G up to a, two sharps), or the class of Scottish tunes that extend one note further to b. You don't need to overblow at all for the pipe tunes, and the Susato has a powerful low register. Your fingers a...