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BlowPipesSP - Scottish Smallpipes

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BlowPipesSP is an easy to play, authentic sounding set of Scottish Smallpipes for the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.

Compared to the big Scottish Highland pipes, the Smallpipes have a rounder sound and are pitched a half-step lower, in the key of A.

Play a melody on the chanter by touching the holes while blowing into the microphone on your device or wired headset. Touching each of the holes makes a different tone of the standard bagpipes scale. The iPhone hardware doesn't support enough touches to do a real chanter fingering so that's the way it has to be.

To play the chanter without blowing, just set the microphone location selector on the settings page to Off. Play the notes by just touching the chanter holes. In this mode, once you touch a hole, the chanter plays continuously just like a real Scottish Smallpipes chanter. To stop the chanter playing, start and stop the drones.

This app currently requires a headset with a microphone to be used on the 2nd and 3rd Generation iPod Touch. No headset is required for 4th Generation iPod Touch, iPhone (all models) or iPad.

Touch the drone puck image to switch the drones on and off.

Touch the 'i' icon at the bottom center to bring up the settings page. Here you can adjust the blowing sensitivity as well as the balance between the drones and chanter.

You may also select between Top (iPod Touch 4G, iPad) or Bottom (iPhone) microphone location for your device.

The Flip switch on the settings page toggles between high/low and low/high note order on the chanter.

On the settings page, touch the ePipes logo to visit their website, or touch the TradLessons logo to learn more about my other music apps.

Please visit the app website for a demonstration video!

The drone and chanter sounds are provided by ePipes in Glasgow, Scotland, and are high quality per-note studio recordings of a world-class set of Scottish Smallpipes.

Have an iPad and want a full realistic Scottish Smallpipes app? Please check out my "Smallpipes" app for the iPad, which is played with the same fingerings as the real chanter since the iPad can support up to 10 simultaneous touches.

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Last changed:

Feb 11, 2011

Category:

Music

Developer:

Michael Eskin

Version:

1.0

Average Rating:

5.00 (2)

Size:

6.3 MB

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