Tour Scotland Video Smallpipes St Ninian's Cathedral Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a lament played on the smallpipes in St Ninian's Cathedral in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The group the Odd Alliance playing in St Ninian's Cathedral in Perth. Scottish Smallpipes are distinguished from the Northumbrian smallpipes by having an open end to the chanter, and usually by the lack of keys. This means that the sound of the chanter is continuous, rather than staccato, and that its range is only nine notes, rather than the nearly two octaves of the later 18th/19th century style Northumbrian pipes. A further distinction from the Northumbrian smallpipes is that the Scottish Smallpipes lack an unbroken line of traditional playing.

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