Talk:Canntaireachd

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[edit] about pronunciation

How pronounced is "canntaireachd"? Wandering perfect fool 02:26, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

- I don't know IPA well enough but the final sound is the hardest to represent and would be something like "xk" in it, i.e. "ch" as in "loch", or like "Juan" in Spanish and a final "k" sound. The first part would be "can-ter" in an English phonetic spelling. --MacRusgail 21:14, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] mystery cleared

I learnt the bagpipes via the chanter. This was in colonial Africa. My teacher, a very old man, had a habit of singing or chanting the tunes in what we took to be a bizarre personal dialect, which we made fun of all the time. I now realise he was doing classic canntaireachd and I should have paid more attention! Bagman