The fingering can be made to suite the player with either modern Highland pipe fingering or open fingering available the most common. With highland fingering the available scale is G, A, B, c, c#, d, e, f, f#, g, g#, a with ‘A’ being the tonic note and the scale set up in mixolydian. An open finger scale would need to be tuned to the desired mode. If the mode uses a “major” scale then you could use cross fingering to flatten the third and sixth notes (c# and f#) to get a major scale. The typical German Medieval bagpipe fingering is open with a minor third, major sixth, and major 7th but they are set up to give you a minor 7th and 6th with cross-fingering .

That’s a seriously brief run down but I hope you get the idea! Just ask if you have any more questions.

I’m interested in your medieval pipes. A couple of quesitons — what Keys can you make them in? I’d be interested in keys other than A.

I’d also like to know if you can do different types of fingering, such as open fingering, like on a recorder.