Säckpipa

What it is

The Swedish bagpipe, revived from about ten museum instruments; Leif Eriksson's design is a compromise between them. Played in Swedish folk music, solo and with fiddle and nyckelharpa.²

Also called Swedish bagpipe.

Range

E4 to E5²330 Hz – 659 Hz

Traditional Swedish bagpipe: from one-lined e to two-lined e. Notes beyond the scale can be bent with bag pressure (Gällmo).

Tuning: In A minor; the drone usually on the chanter's lowest note, E (an octave lower, or A, also occur). One player tunes A to 440 Hz and tunes single notes against the chanter's A and E with wax; the source gives no temperament.^2,3

The sound

A cylindrical chanter, bored at 6 mm, with a single reed of Swedish cane; the highest open finger hole sets the note. The traditional instrument is mouth-blown through a blowpipe and has one drone; later instruments often have more, and some multi-drone pipes are bellows-blown. A player and reed maker says its sound should be much closer to the harmonica's than to the clarinet's.^2,3

Where the sound goes

No source found.

About the range

Range: from one-lined e to two-lined e, E4-E5. A player bends notes beyond the usual scale by changing bag pressure.

Tuning: in A minor; one player tunes A to 440 Hz. The drone is usually tuned to the chanter's lowest note, E; an octave lower and drones in A also occur.^2,3

Recording it

No source found that names a mic or a placement for the säckpipa, in Swedish or English.

Mics i

No mic is named by more than one source yet: each names its own.