{"id":613,"date":"2016-02-01T13:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T13:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/?p=613"},"modified":"2023-01-28T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T11:43:07","slug":"what-is-an-interchangeable-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/2016\/02\/what-is-an-interchangeable-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an Interchangeable Stock?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the features available on some sets of Northumbrian pipes is an interchangeable stock &#8211; here&#8217;s a description of what that means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Non-interchangeable: Chanter is plugged into a wooden stock that is tied into the neck of the bag. Unplugging the chanter <strong>exposes<\/strong> the reed.<\/li><li>Interchangeable: A socket is tied into the bag and the chanter and stock are plugged in. Unplugging the stock <strong>protects<\/strong> the reed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/NonInterchangeable.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/NonInterchangeable.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"616\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/NonInterchangeable.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/2016\/02\/what-is-an-interchangeable-stock\/noninterchangeable\/\" class=\"wp-image-616\" srcset=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/NonInterchangeable.png 800w, http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/NonInterchangeable-300x150.png 300w, http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/NonInterchangeable-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Non-Interchangeable Chanter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interchangeable.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interchangeable.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"617\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interchangeable.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/2016\/02\/what-is-an-interchangeable-stock\/interchangeable\/\" class=\"wp-image-617\" srcset=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interchangeable.png 800w, http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interchangeable-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interchangeable-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Interchangeable Chanter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An interchangeable stocks is commonly used to allow a player with one set to switch between two or more chanters (e.g. 7k &amp; 17k chanters or &#8216;F&#8217; and &#8216;G&#8217; chanters) whilst protecting the reed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also possible to have an interchangeable dronestock &#8211; allowing you to swap sets of drones &#8211; but this is far less common and significantly more work to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the features available on some sets of Northumbrian pipes is an interchangeable stock &#8211; here&#8217;s a description of what that means: Non-interchangeable: Chanter is plugged into a wooden stock that is tied into the neck of the bag. Unplugging the chanter exposes the reed. Interchangeable: A socket is tied into the bag and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/2016\/02\/what-is-an-interchangeable-stock\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}