THE ALL NEW FAGERSTROM TECHNOPIPES.

NOW AVAILABLE IN WHITE!!!

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WE are happy to supply anyone outside Australia, Prices to New Zealand are around $500aud delivered. Please Email your enquiry

These are the latest release from Fagerstrom ,Sweden.

They are a full electric bagpipe with GHB and 2XSmallpipes sound, low A is fully adjustable from 185hz to 738hz in 0.1-0.7hz steps so you can tune them to match just  about any other instrument you choose to play long with.

It has a baritone E or D drone either alone or along with a tenor or base

It has a built in metronome with variable speed and the ability to record over 500 notes so that can be played back in the left earphone between 1/4 and 2 times the recording speed while you play along in the right, perfect for learning that new tune and even better for practicing seconds and harmonies.

The Technopipe has full midi output (cable supplied) with drones  on channel 15 &16 with the chanter adjustable between channel 1-14

The contact sensitivity is adjustable to suit your skin moisture / type, and the technopipe is 249mm long and 16mm wide with finger spacing the same as the GHB pipe chanter,

THE CONTACTS
The contacts on the chanter are electrical and not mechanical, meaning that they do not have to be pressed down to achieve contact. The grip does not have to be any firmer than that on the pipe chanter. The contacts are about 3mm in diameter, and with their highest point slightly above the surface of the pipe in order to get a better feel for their position. Worth mentioning is that there is no electrical "ground contact" on which a finger or any other part of the body has to rest on, or be connected to, whilst playing.

PLAYING
You start the drones by playing low A, and then the chanter by playing an E. If you don't want the drones to sound you just play an E. If you want to shut the sound off briefly, just play the "off" fingering combination and it will go silent until you start playing again.

SETTINGS/CONTROLS
There are two contacts that are used to control all settings. To adjust a setting, just hold the relevant fingering combination and use the control contacts.

The following can be controlled:

• Sensitivity: Since the fingers sometimes can be very dry, causing them to become poor conductors, and sometimes quite sweaty, leaving a sweat film on the chanter short-circuiting the contacts, the sensitivity is possible to set. Most of the time though, the setting of the sensitivity can be ignored.
• Pitch: the chanter is tuned in the same key as the GHB. The low A goes from 185Hz up to 738Hz in steps of 0.1-0.7Hz, with 466Hz as start pitch. Low A can easily be set to 440Hz.
• Metronome: easy to start in desired tempo.
• Drones: volume relative to chanter. A baritone drone in E or D can sound, either alone or along with the tenor and bass drone.
• Sound: Great Highland pipes, Smallpipes 1, or Smallpipes 2 sound.
• Scale: The chanter can play three different scales:
  1) The standard GHB/SP scale, tuned to harmonise with the drones: so called harmonic tuning.
  2) A chromatic scale, also with harmonic tuning.
  3) A chromatic scale with equally tempered tuning. This tuning is usually the best for playing together with other instruments.
• Volume: affects chanter, drones, and metronome.
• Recording: more than 500 notes can be recorded. During playback, the recorded notes are sounding on the right channel, and you can play along on the left. The playback speed can be set between ¼ and 2 times the recorded speed.

All settings are reset to their initial value every time the chanter is switched on.


MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is an electronic communications protocol that enables electronic musical instruments, computers, and synthezises etc. to communicate with each other. MIDI does not transmit an audio signal - it transmits digital data messages defining parameters such as pitch and volume of the musical notes to play. See http://www.midi.org for further reading.

You enter MIDI mode by holding a specific fingering combination and then inserting the MIDI cable plug to switch the chanter on.
The chanter is initially set to channel 1, but can be set between 1 and 14. The bass is fixed on channel 15 and the tenor fixed on channel 16.
In MIDI mode the metronome, recording, and baryton drones are not available.
The pitch is adjusted in semi-notes.
The volume settings for chanter and drones affect the "velocity" of the MIDI note. On some devices the velocity is the same as the volume for the note, on others it isn't. It is up to the receiving device to interpret the velocity data. With the sound setting on Smallpipes, all notes have the same velocity. With the setting on Highland pipes, the higher notes has lower velocity than the low notes.
In MIDI mode the power consumption is lower and the chanter will run for approx. 20 hours on a rechargeable 1000mAh NiMH battery.

DIMENSIONS
The length of the pipe is 249mm and the diameter is 16mm. Despite the small dimensions this is a full-size chanter and the spacing of the contacts is the same as the spacing of the holes on a pipe chanter. The dimensions together with the low weight of approx. 60 grams, make this chanter very portable indeed.

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AVAILABLE with a clear or black casing and is shipped with a midi cable and instruction sheet, however  we will supply a good set of batteries, headphones, leather slip cover. and overnight express post for free within Australia.

WE Sell a range of Accessories for the Technopipes, have a look at our ACCESSORIES PAGE

For more information and sound samples have a look at the Technopipes homesite or click the link below to have a closer look at the different functions of the technopipes.

See Flash Video Demonstrations HERE or download the manual HERE

Pricing.

PLEASE NOTE: Technopipe stocks towords Christmas time can get low, so it is recomended that you Email to make sure we have the Colour you require, If not in stock they are usually not far away but its best to check.

All This Plus Free Registered Overnight post for $530

(NZ customers approx $500au with 4 day delivery) please email

The Price of the new technopipe complete with midi cable, earphones, batteries,leather case , and express postage is $530Au,

We Accept, Visa, Paypall, personnel cheque's and even Laybuy. Or buy Now with our shopping cart.

Black Technopipes as above

Clear Technopipes as above

White Technopipes as above

PLEASE NOTE: Technopipe stocks towords Christmas time can get low, so it is recomended that you Email to make sure we have the Colour you require, If not in stock they are usually not far away but its best to check.

We can now offer an adapter cable that connects to your supplied Midi cable and converts to a 6.5mm mono plug, giving you a  4mt average  (any length available on request) cable that will fit any Guitar amplifier and most sound boards, Simply plugs into a microphone socket, Developed and Made by us and Approved by the makers of the Fagerstrom Technopipes,  Cable $20 when purchased with pipes,

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Or submit an order with our online order form

If you are in the Brisbane area and would like to try a set before you buy them then please email or phone us to arrange a demonstration or why not get us along to one of your band nights, there will be a discount If you buy two or more.

We use Australia post Platinum Satchels with Guaranteed overnight delivery with Tracking and registration, To find out if you are in the overnight network or to track your satchel you can visit the Australia post website

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