March, Strathspey and Reel - The Conundrum, Arniston Castle

Looking forward to choosing some new tunes for 2009. The Conundrum can be a bit tricky. Arniston Castle and Over the Isles were my first ever strathspey and reel I learnt back in 1974!

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Music

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• march
• strathspey
• reel
• conundrum
• arniston
• castle
• over
• isles

[alvindurochermtl]

Hi Dave,great stuff, what chanter and reed do you use?

[DoffDave]

McCallum chanter (not MC2) with Sound Supreme Reed (John Elliott, Canada)

[pipertripp]

Dave, your playing is excellent. It's fun to watch you play... one question... does your house have any furniture in it? Every room you play in seems to be empty. lol

[DoffDave]

You can't expect me to afford pipes AND furniture??? No, just joking - this is a spare room used for music....

[oyeah96]

im going to learn arniston for competetion what other reels could be used to complete the set??

[DoffDave]

"Man from Glengarry", "Lachlan McPhail of Tiree" or "Alick C. MacGregor" are good choices.

[StrathendrickPiper]

great playing!

[lairg11]

@hfranke07

when playing the conundrum play the first note of every bar slightly longer.

[hfranke07]

I wrote you a year ago.... and I still dont play this wonderful tune. I think I practice not enough...... your playing is out of this world..... after been playing The Conundrum for some time, I can realy hear how you just do this great timing thing,- holding the long notes and cutting the short ones..... wow, I love this.

[BagpiperGermany]

Great,

yesterday i started to learn tohe conundrum ;-)

[hfranke07]

Hi Dave. First of all,- great playing and great vids for us to look at ...... you play just great.

Right now I am learning The Conundrum.... what version are you playing? I try to play the Scots Guards version,- but in the second bar you play the high A with a dot,- and not the E, as in SG. Where did you get your sheeds? Thanks..... love you tone and play.

[pipertripp]

fair enough. They're canny nice pipes you've got there.