Redpipe CALEDONIA HALF SET

Description

Redpipe CALEDONIA HALF SET

Electronic bagpipe with the look of a real Great Highland Bagpipe!

With drone sticks but without drone and without blowpipe – so existing parts of your pipe can be used!

Here you get a high quality McCallum P2 Bagpipe made of Polypenco (Goretex Bag, Fully Combed + Beaded, Alloy Engraved Ferrules) and built-in redpipe electronics. So you get a real Scottish bagpipe – equipped as an electronic redpipe!

Blow and push like an acoustic pipe – only with much less air and effort.

This Scottish bagpipe is played just like a conventional bagpipe blow air and start the pipe simply by pressing the bag! Reliable electronics evaluate the air pressure in the bag and offer the musician an extremely realistic playing feel!

Fingerings

Up to 7 fingering tables are available. These can be combined with all sounds.

Classic version

– Scottish Highland Bagpipes & Smallpipes

with 3 variations of the Scottish bagpipe fingering

– Minimal open and without vibrato
– Standard GHB half open and vibrato are activated
– Extended semitones are playable, extended range, vibrato and overblowing
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Audio sample GHB
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sound sample Smallpipe
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– Medieval (market) bagpipe (open bagpipe fingering)

– Gaita Gallega (with standard and extended fingering)

French version for an additional charge you will receive additional grips

– Shepherd’s pipe / French cornemuse (semi-closed fingering with second thumbhole)

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audio sample 1
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sound sample 2
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– Hümmelchen & Dudey (baroque recorder fingering)

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Audio sample 3
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sound sample 4
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In the French version, the lowest tone hole for the little finger is adjustable laterally or centrally.

 

Optional extensions

– French chanter (with 2nd thumbhole) with the semi-closed French and the baroque Hümmelchen fingerings

– Preset Storage for saving up to 10 presets

Very useful extension, with which up to 10 settings (fingering, sound, pitch, etc.) can be freely stored.

Sounds

The 4 sounds present in the instrument are sampled from original instruments. The sounds controlled by microprocessors are changed depending on the key setting. The sounds can be freely combined with the fingerings

– Highland Bagpipe

– Shepherd pipe / medieval bagpipe

– Hümmelchen / Highland Smallpipe

– Gaita Gallega

Real Bagpipe Sound

With an acoustic pipe, the pitch is slightly lower at the start until the right pressure is in the bag, which means the pitch varies slightly at start and stop. This function is also a characteristic feature of the redpipe.

Key
The key can be changed in wide ranges in semitone steps.

Pitch
The redpipe is set to A 440 Hz in the factory setting. When playing with instruments that have a different tuning, the redpipe can be easily adjusted. The tuning is global and independent of the fingering. So you can change keys and the overall tuning remains the same.

Intonation
Drone instruments as well as bagpipes are normally tuned pure. In the studio as well as when playing together with other tempered instruments, problems can occur. Change from pure tuning to equal temperament without any problems!

Basic tuning
The basictuning is switched in each case with the fingering table

– GHB keynote b flat

– french cornemuse / shepherd’s pipe keynote G

– Hümmelchen and Dudey keynote C

– Gaita Gallega keynote C

Drone tuning to the keynote

– Root / Octave Bordun (default setting) Bordun is the root of the chanter plus octave.

(Example Lowest note is C – drones in C for C major)

– Fourth bordun It sounds the fourth to the root of the chanter

(example root note is C – drones in F for key F major)

– Second bordun It sounds the second to the keynote of the chanter

(example root is C – drones in D for key of D minor or Dorian)

Drone finetuning
The drones can be finely tuned in their pitch in relation to the chanter. The volume of the drones is adjustable.

Overblowing
All redpipes have a range of 1 1/2 octaves. To overblow, either open the upper thumbhole or press harder on the bag.

Vibrato
Realistic playing of vibratos like acoustic bagpipes!

Modes
The mode of a Scottish bagpipe is set to Mixolydian. As a result, many non-Celtic tunes are missing two notes. With the redpipe you can choose between the following two modes

– Mixolydian

is one of the four old authentic modes or church keys. In this scale, a semitone lies between the third and fourth as well as the sixth and seventh degree, the other intervals are whole tone steps. The minor seventh is characteristic, all other notes correspond to those of the major scale.

– Ionic

is one of the authentic modes or church keys added by Glarean in the 16th century. From it emerged our present-day tonal gender, the major. In this scale, a semitone lies between the third and fourth and the seventh and eighth steps; the other intervals are whole-note steps. The major third is characteristic.

Metronome
is integrated and freely selectable in tempo. The beat of the metronome is signaled by a click in the sound as well as by the LED.

Outputs

– Line out

– Line level not adjustable 6.35mm jack socket for external audio system or radio transmitter

– Headphones For normal stereo headphones or earphones – volume adjustable – 2.5mm jack socket. Also suitable for monitoring on stage.

MIDI
At the 5 pol. DIN socket MIDI OUT a normal MIDI cable is plugged in. With it you can control all tone generators with MIDI input, sequencers or other MIDI devices (e.g. also personal computers equipped with sound card and MIDI interface).

The redpipe uses MIDI channel 1 for the chanter data and on channel 2 to 4 for the drones.

Technical data of the redpipe

– Power supply 2 AA alkaline batteries (supplied).

– Battery life approx. 20 hours with alkaline batteries (depending on the connected devices)

– Weight 1,3 kg

(To play with the redpipe you need standard earphones (stereo) or you have to connect the instrument to an amplifier).