“The intonation of Highland bagpipes today is essentially ‘Just Intonation’ — the notes are generally tuned to be ‘pure’ with the drones,” said Barnaby Brown. “Pure intervals were also used to tune the harp, and in his Ancient Music of Ire

The most notable features of the surviving examples of locally produced instruments which have recently come to light, are the number and size of the drones. Duncan Gillis, Grand Mira, made only two-droned sets at first, adding a bass drone when requested

bagpipe scale, with a fourth and seventh sharper than ‘pure’ (i.e. consonant with the drones). He had looked into a number of possible tun-ings, and assessed how relevant each one might be, based on the distribution of fifths in the manuscript. “Med