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9 4 23 20130930 23 ble by tuning the baritone to d as usual. Be- cause there was the tuning problem of “a to e’ and b to e’”, already seen with the e’ regula- tor, and I was not really satisfied with the tun- ing. Result. Chanters tend to overblow the b’’ sharply, so the b’’ and e’’ sounded well to the e’ drone, but the b’ was flat and the e’ sharp, as often found on many chanters. So I often came back to the traditional Ddd’ drone tuning while playing in the e modes, especially when the e’ occurred fre- quently in the melody line. Later – around 2006 – I was search- ing for a solution to have more drones for the remaining mode ton- ics other than d and e. I had some parts of Podworny drones in the drawer, so I constructed a three-part drone, sounding a or b, de- pendent on the grade of slide length- ening (I added a tone ring to the one on the C set). I mounted it along the mainstock in the way the bass regu- lator is arranged, with a switch to shut it off if the traditional Ddd’ tuning would be desired. This new drone is fed from the baritone drone channel. Now there were two drone groups to be switched on and off at will : Dd’ and be (for tunes in e minor) or ae (a mixolydian and a dorian). Picture 4 Picture 5

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