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unusual facts about Chanter


Chanter

On the Great Highland Bagpipe, the internal bore is conical: it is this that gives the chanter its exceptional volume.


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Doreen Chanter

In 1981, Chanter was part of a chorus that sang at The Secret Policeman's Ball with other chorus members including Phil Collins, Donovan, Sheena Easton, Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and Tom Robinson.

Geoffrey Coleridge, 3rd Baron Coleridge

In 1930 Coleridge and his wife were approached by Canadian academic Kathleen Coburn for permission to examine the family archive at The Chanter's House for material written by his great-great-great uncle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Kathleen Coburn

In 1930 the 25 year-old Coburn visited The Chanter's House at Ottery St Mary in Devon, which had been the home of the Coleridge family for centuries.

Pierre de Molins

The music of Chanter me fet was used in two different readings of Pour la pucele en chantant me deport by Gautier de Coincy and the lyrics were a model for the anonymous Destroiz d'amours et pensis sans deport.

Practice chanter

The bagpipe practice chanter is a double reed woodwind instrument whose main function is as an adjunct to the Great Highland Bagpipe.

See Saw Margery Daw

In the anime Shakugan no Shana, a character called Margery Daw is introduced as the chanter of elegies.

Vielart de Corbie

He was active in the Île-de-France in the first decades of the thirteenth century at the latest, since his song De chanter me semont Amours was used as the basis for a contrafactum, Quant ces floretes florir voi, by Gautier de Coincy (died 1236).


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