The DegerPipes Chanter is an ideal supplement for the common practice chanter; and much more...

• Key Features
• Sound Samples
• MIDI Files
• User's Manual
• Contact Address

• Same size and finger spacing as a long practice chanter.
• Dual output: PHONES and MIDI! Headphones and MIDI devices can directly connect to the DegerPipes Chanter. It's also possible to connect the phones output to an amplifier or a stereo.
• The chanter contains all electronic components as well as the battery. No external box or additional equipment is needed.
• Authentic Bagpipe sound including drones generated by wavetable sound synthesis. Highland Pipe and Smallpipe sounds integrated.
• Perfectly tuned chanter scale and drones by usage of crystal oscillator and microprocessor control.
• The Pitch is adjustable in a range of more than three octaves. This enables you to play together with other instruments in any key.
• The drones volume is variable and can also be switched off.
• Through MIDI output every MIDI compatible tone generator or other MIDI equipment can be used (for example PC with notation program).
• An extended cromatical scale is available allowing you to play tunes which are not playable on the real pipe chanter.
• Driven by a cheap standard 9V Battery, Accumulators are also usable.
• Up to 100 hours of playing with only one battery.
• Automatic power off after a minute of no activity.
• A Metronome is integrated within the Chanter.

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These samples are recorded directly from the phones output of the DegerPipes Chanter to the line input of a Soundblaster AWE32 sound card. No additional effects or other changes were applied to the samples.

• minch.wav (239K) Crossing the Minch with the GHB sound, standard pitch.
• goldring.wav (225K) Golden Ring jig with the Smallpipe sound pitched B-flat and D.
• andro.wav (276K) AnDro (a tune from Brittany) with the GHB sound, low pitched.

You listen to the DegerPipes Chanter played by Manfred Deger.

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• Leaving Lunga, march (size 12K)
• Maggie Cameron, strathspey, Locheils Away to France, reel (size 14K)
• Donald Willie and his Dog, jig (size 6K)
• Ronnie Lawries Rant, jig (size 5K)
• Crossing the Minch, hornpipe (size 13K)
• All Files as .ZIP archive (size 12K)

The MIDI-Files are just to demonstrate the MIDI capabilities of the DegerPipes chanter. The files are raw and in need of subsequent work. The MIDI files are using bassoon and flute sounds.
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The User's Manual for the DegerPipes Chanter is available for download in Adobes PDF format.
User's Manual (English): manual.pdf (size 260K)
Bedienungsanleitung (German): Anleitung.pdf (size 250K)

To read these files, you might need a copy of the Adobe Acrobat-Reader:

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dedicated to Jakob and Anna