Bagpipes
Cornemuse · Great Highland bagpipe · Säckpipa · Uilleann pipes
- Sources
- 11 independent: not from a mic maker
What it is
A bag, filled by mouth or by bellows, feeds a chanter that plays the tune and one or more drones that hold a note. How they are miked differs by type: sources put one mic several metres from the loud, mouth-blown Highland pipes, and a mic on each group of pipes of the quieter, bellows-blown uilleann pipes.
Where the sound goes
The chanter radiates forward: in front of a Highland piper it is about 12 dB louder than behind at 1 m, and a cornemuse player calls it highly directional. The drones radiate all round. A mic behind the player misses the chanter.2,3
Mics
- 1 setups from 1 sources, 1 of them independent of any mic maker.
- On top: the mics more than one source names for this instrument, in any role, the most named first. That is a count of sources, not our verdict.
- Few independent sources so far, so the full list shows no counts.
No mic is named by more than one source yet: each names its own.
All the mics sources name, by setting and role (0)
Studio
The 1 setup behind this: placement and quotes
- Close flat (boundary) condenser or mini mic, 8-12 in from the chanter; drones overheadclose, chanter + drones
Mike the chanter about 8 to 12 inches from the fingers with a flat condenser or mini mic; mike the drone pipes overhead.
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