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Open piping

playing technique, playing a scale by lifting the fingers in succession

Identical types: 6

Open fingering, closing only those fingerholes, necessary to produce a note of the required pitch; Often used in combination with Close piping; NB: ➺ Open/Closed fingering.

Legato style.

Loose piping


Sources

Breathnach, Breandán: The Irish pipes. In: The bagpipes in Europe, 1 (1976), p.10.

O’Canainn, Tomás: Traditional music in Ireland [1978]. London, 1979 (2), p.85.

Buckley, Ann: Considerations in a stylistic analysis of uilleann piping. In: SIMP VI (Stockholm, 1979), p.122 (open fingering).