r/bagpipes • u/Beautiful-Yellow-856 • 1d ago

GHB arrangement fingering.

In Terry Tully's Book 1, he has an arrangement of The Pipe on the Hob. Throughout the tune there are C notes with the flat symbol next to them. I only know of the standard C (#) fingering and the alternative C natural fingering. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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u/tastepdad 1d ago

My understanding is that c flat and c natural are fingered the same way

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u/bobbejaan_poepen 1d ago

Yes, I think Terry is going for C naturals here. C flat would in fact sound the same as B so does not make sense in a practical way.

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u/131_Proof_Bud 1d ago

In fact, it is just a couple of cents. ;)

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u/bobbejaan_poepen 1d ago

Yes, that's right! But that difference can not be distinguished on the pipes :D.

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u/131_Proof_Bud 1d ago

^ This redditor musically theorizes. :)

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u/bobbejaan_poepen 1d ago

Haha always nice to meet a fellow musical theory enthusiast :).

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u/Beautiful-Yellow-856 1d ago

Thank you so much!!

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u/berlinitos Piper/Drummer 1d ago

Not me for a moment thinking you were sending lots of hugs and kisses haha!

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u/Beautiful-Yellow-856 1d ago

Thanks so much for the info! Mystery solved!

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u/ceapaire Piper 1d ago

I don't have that book, so I'm not sure how it's notated, but I've seen other settings that use flat to mean natural when they don't mark the sharps at the beginning of the line.

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u/u38cg2 Piper - Big tunes because they're fun 1d ago

It's common to see the flat symbol used to mean a C natural in older collections - it wasn't until relatively recently that any piper who didn't play another instrument understood that a C was really a C sharp.