Never blow harder or softer to force a note in tune. I show on four screens at once that overblowing a flat note doesn't just fail to fix it — it drags every drone sharp and out of tune with it.
A flat, unmoving green line is the goal for every drone. Flat means the pitch isn't drifting; green means it's centered on pitch. A bouncing line means pressure instability, not a tuning problem you can fix with tape.
You only need one InTune mic to transform your tuning. The four-mic setup was a one-time visual experiment. In practice, one mic moved from chanter to each drone in turn gets you fully tuned in a couple of minutes.
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Bagpipe Tuning With 4 Phones + 4 InTune Mics: The Ultimate Visual Tuning Experiment
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