Fagerstrom Uilleann Technopipe

By pressing the underarm bag like octave switch, the notes of the second octave are played.

The bottom sensor acts as low D valve to enable staccato playing. (See image below.) The bottom sensor can easily be disabled.

• Sensitivity: Since the fingers sometimes can be very dry, causing them to become poor conductors, and sometimes quite sweaty, leaving a sweat film on the chanter short-circuiting the contacts, the sensitivity is possible to set. Most of the time though, the setting of the sensitivity can be ignored.
• Pitch: The chanter starts in the key of D (294Hz), and the low D goes from 92Hz up to 369Hz in steps of 0.1 to 0.7Hz. The key of the chanter can easily be set to A(220Hz), Bb, C, or D.
• Metronome: easy to start in desired tempo. Sub-beats can be added.
• Drones: volume relative to chanter. The drones are always in tune with and follows the key of the chanter.
• Scale: The chanter can play two different scales:
  1) A chromatic scale, tuned to harmonise with the drones: so called harmonic tuning.
  2) A chromatic scale with equally tempered tuning. This tuning is usually the best for playing together with other instruments.
• Fingering: The chanter can play two different fingerings:
  1) Uilleann fingering with cross-fingering for a fully chromatic scale.
  2) Great Highland bagpipes fingering with cross-fingering for a fully chromatic scale.
• Volume: affects chanter, drones, and metronome.
• Recording: more than 1200 notes can be recorded. During playback, the recorded notes are sounding on the right channel, and you can play along on the left. The playback speed can be set between ¼ and 2 times the recorded speed.