![]() ![]() With bagpipes what I've usually heard about is how steep the taper in the bore is. ![]() In my experience old-school trad players tend to prefer whistles that have an easy sweet 2nd octave at the sacrifice of some loudness in the low octave, while people coming from orchestral instruments tend to prefer whistles with the loudest possible low octave at the sacrifice of some sweetness and nimbleness in the 2nd octave. If the bore is wide enough you loose the 2nd octave altogether, and if the bore is narrow enough you loose the low octave altogether. Though the way the fipple windway etc are made also have an impact, in general a wider bore gives a louder more solid low octave and a harsher and/or more difficult to sound 2nd octave, while a narrower bore gives a thinner weaker less stable low octave and a sweeter easier 2nd octave. I have tried to play and feel the differences of it compared with the other whistles, but it would be nice to know which qualities to pay attention to in that comparison. I have a Killarney whistle which seems to be narrower compared to my other whistles, so I've been deducing that it could be a narrow bore whistle. I reckon this might have been under discussion previously, so if that's more fitting, could someone point me into the right direction to a pre-existing topic about this? It seems that I'm not so proficient in using the search function of the forum, after all. ![]() I mean, besides the actual dimensional differences of the bore, what does the bore being narrow or wide affect and how (tonal qualities etc.)? I've been playing the whistle enough that I'm frankly a bit ashamed that I can't answer that question with certainty. I'm seeking definite information once and for all to make it clear to myself what actually is the difference between wide and narrow bore whistles (and pipes, for that matter). ![]()
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