'Twould be an honor, Robin!

Oh that's lovely I'm going to'catch' that tune from you Jud!!!!

Nice job, and a nice tribute as well.

Amen, folkfan, as to remembrance: music concentrates the heart.

A bone shivering, tear trickling melody. Perfect way to remember the fallen.

I'm glad to know about that, Helen! It just happens to be an easy way to get a good bagpipe drone without retuning. Thank you passing that along.

Thank you, Patty and Cindy, for your kind words!

Lovely Jud . Thanks for showing another way to play

Thank you, Carrie! And just so everyone knows, the actual purpose of the doubled string on 4-stringers is to double the drone at the octave--just like bagpipes do! The *real* melody string is the middle string!

Anybody out there buying that?

Thanks, Steven. One of my favorite pipe tunes is a musical memorial to the Battle of the Somme. I thought D-Day deserved its own pipe tune.

Very nicely done! And thank you for commemorating a momentous day in history. One of my uncles was there.

Right you are, Rob! Something that's fun to play around with is to tune to CFc or DGd and, with the outer strings chiming the drone, go back and forth between mixolydian (drones @ the 5th) and dorian (drones @ the octave) tunes played on the middle string.

Excellent, Jud. There are some tunes that sound really good when played on the middle string like that.

There's been some recent discussion about bagpipe tuning in the old style group. I thought it might be timely to play an original pipe tune commemorating D-Day and also showing how you can get the bagpipe drone effect in CGc (or DAd) by playing the melody on the middle string. fwiw I've read somewhere that the middle string was actually the (doubled) melody string on early dulcimers, with the two outer strings serving as drones. Also, I use what I regard as the traditional strum, which is towards the body, striking the bass string first.

If you want to hear the wind version of this, it's at