Removal of The Footjoint
The Pastoral pipes gradually evolved into the Union pipes as Baroque musical tastes favoured a more expressive type of instrument. The foot joint may have fallen out of use as early as the 1746-1770's as oboists of the period, who usually played Pastoral pipes, would frequently removed or invert the foot joint in order to remove the low C# foot joint to play the chanter upon the knee,. The fall from grace of the open chanter was slow to take effect as Pastoral pipes with removable foot joints were still being made till the 1850s and played until after the First World War. In time the instrument would be tuned for performance on the knee rather than off it, and the foot joint remnant today is the tenon cut around the foot of the modern uilleann chanter.
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