vPipes in D: Carolan's Concerto
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- I've uploaded two clips on the vPipes after people asking for some sounds. The vPipes can play any pitch but they come with two sample banks: a D chanter by Leo Rowsome and a C chanter by Alain Froment. Here's me playing a popular Rowsome tune on the D setting.
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Hi, Jason. Can you make a video on closed vs open piping? This seems to be a thing but I can't find a lot of info about it. Thanks!
This is actually on my list of things to do! Thanks so much and great to know it’s something people want to understand more. I think it’s such an interesting part of the instrument and happy to talk about it in a new video 🙌🏻
@@sionrouse Thanks so much. I'm getting back to piping now after 15 years and during all this time this is something I always tried to observe in different pipers but I've never seen anyone actually talk about it, or demonstrate it. Your channel is a gold mine for us self taught pipers out there so thank you very very much the effort you put into it.
Hi Jason
I just bought a set of vPipes second hand. Do you have any special set up tips.
Enjoying the channel. Brendan
Hi Brendan, I’d track down the manual from the website and do a full reset on the finger sensors and then adjust them to your specification. It took me a little bit of playing around for it to ‘feel’ like one of my chanters but when you dial in the sweet spot it becomes second nature. Good luck with your set and enjoy your piping journey
Hi I’m interesting in trying to source one of these for practicing. If you don’t mind me asking can you do rolls where you bend the note on this ?
Yea! They’re very accurate to the actual pipes. They take bends no problem
How reponsive are the V-Pipes to fingering? Slides, ornaments, alternate fingerings (especially C nat), popping, etc? Do you worry that without the question of bag pressure you will lose facility in sounding upper register notes? What about practicing techniques to prevent dropping the octave?
I found that they follow the most common taught D fingerings and respond the same. There are no alternative Cs (unfortunately) but some other notes do have alternatives. Bag pressure is done via a sensor and is surprisingly accurate. It can also be customised and calibrated in the settings. The upper notes play very similar to a standard D chanter, in that you typically need some lower notes to jump up to A & B.
If you check out the video for the C setting you’ll get more of an idea how it responds to popping. Those sounds are more realistic. I’d like to be able to customise how some of the notes behave. For example, on my C chanter, the bottom F# almost always sounds in the upper octave (like Ennis) and I often use this to create a percussive or rhythmic element to my playing which is not possible on the vpipes. But that is something that is particularly idiosyncratic and perhaps if it happened on a ‘perfect’ set of pipes it would be considered a problem note.
Would you be interested in selling these? Thanks
Sorry nope, but they do come up on the second hand market fairly regularly and reasonable prices. And I understand theyre still being made. Send a message to Ramón on the vPipes website. All the best with your search!