Music in a bag? Controlling the bag of Majorcan and Galician bagpipes.

Autor: Ernoult, Augustin, Fabre, Benoît, Balosso-Bardin, Cassandre, Franciosi, Ilya, de la Cuadra, Patricio
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Zdroj: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Sep2017, Vol. 142 Issue 3, p1454-1465, 12p, 3 Diagrams, 1 Chart, 8 Graphs
Abstrakt: After defining the mechanical framework of the bag control of bagpipe, this paper presents a study of the bag pressure control in a musical context through the comparison of six players and two bagpipes: one Galician (gaita) and one Majorcan (xeremies), the latter mainly differentiated organologically by a much larger bag size. General observations first lead to the identification and interpretation of the range of control parameters observed. A more detailed analysis of the control parameters during the production of steady notes highlights the coordination between insufflations and the arm displacement necessary to produce a stable and continuous sound. Finally, the bag pressure variation is observed in a musical context and correlated with the musical task, thus, associating different control strategies to the different bagpipes played by the musicians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index