Open piping
playing technique, playing a scale by lifting the fingers in succession
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.
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).