Key & Gaita Fingering - Seivane Manual De Instrucciones

Drone reed
The drone reed is the element that produces the source of sound in the
bass drone, tenor drone and high drone, according to which is used.
The traditional drone reed is a single piece cane tube, to which a
vibrating plate is cut on the tube itself.
Seipal sythentic drone reed
The patented synthetic Seipal drone reed, with the built-in stop valves
is the result of long term research by the Obradoiro de Gaitas
Seivane. It gives tonal stability in any given temperature condition,
minimizes the variation of the effects of humidity and remains faithful
to the sound of the traditional cane drone reed.
Key
The Obradoiro de Gaitas Seivane makes gaitas in all tonalities, from C4 to G5. Besides, with the key changing
kits there is the possibility to change the gaita's key by exchanging or adding some pieces. Please ask us about.
Gaita Fingering
Attached to this manual there is a table of fingering positions, for a gaita tuned in C. For other keys and for prac-
tical reasons, the same note name will be used, although its sound will be different.
There are notes with various fingering positions, sometimes with micro-tonal differences between them, which
can prove tricky when correcting tuning with precision, depending on the circumstances and situation (chanter
reed, chanter, climate...). Either way, they allow the tempered scale to be achieved allowing you to play alongside
classical instruments that use it, or they can be used for reasons of comfort in certain passages that are played.
With natural fingering in order, without the use of 'tranquillas' (positional adjustment of the fingers on the
chanter), the semi-tempered scale is obtained, which is the current natural tuning of the Galician gaita and is
halfway between the natural scale, congenital to the old gaita and the modern tempered scale.
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