The pitch of this O'Flynn chanter?

Uilleann Pipes
1

Hi, I was listening this Liam O’Flynn solo, (starting at 2.14) https://youtu.be/zqpZITYexNQ and couldn’t figure it out whether it is his Froment C chanter or something else? It sounds quite flat of C if I am not mistaken? Anyone has a clue whats going on? Thanks, Cheers

2

To me it sounds like its not playing at its natural pitch, the lads at the control panel have tweaked the pitch to suit the pitch of the track, or something like that.

RORY

3

i didn’t like the sound of that at all and i love o’flynn’s playing

4

This particular youtube video linked in the OP is filled with audio artifacts, and pitch-shifted and time-shifted just enough to make Liam’s C chanter sound quite nasty.

Here’s a much better quality video of the same exact song. You’ll notice that it’s about 45-ish seconds longer, because it hasn’t been pitched higher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oELlbpK6ZE4

5

It sounds auto-tuned and highly processed.

It might even be his D chanter pitch shifted lower. Some of the tones sound very wide to be a Froment C chanter. Quinn maybe?
The hard D (C) is very robust to come from a narrow bore chanter.
Could be wrong though.

Tommy

6

Thanks for comments. I was curious as it didn’t sound right to me - there was something strange.

Yes, the recording is a nasty one, yours is much better. Thanks

7

The track was recorded long before odd-o-toon
came along. This youtube blurb was recorded from
an lp. You can hear the clicks and pops. It’s his d chanter.
In those primordial times the track would be recorded and
in this case sped up to match the pipes pitch on the overdub
and finally played back to the original speed. That recording is fine.

8

That track needs a little reverb.