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I have no idea what any of that means, but I love the deep knowledge that it expresses :-)
by HeyLaughingBoy 1y ago
I have no idea what any of that means, but I love the deep knowledge that it expresses :-)
- zahlman 1y agoI'll try to simplify: you can't readily adjust the tuning of a bagpipe; it's tuned in a way that would make it sound horribly dissonant against other instruments (for important music-theory reasons); and it doesn't even play all the notes, so you can't play in all the major and minor keys of Western (== European from c. 1580 onward + American) music tradition - you're stuck with scales that only make sense for the genre of music that's specifically written for the instrument.