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  2. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    The ancient name of bagpipes in Greece is Askavlos (Askos Ασκός means wine skin, Avlos Αυλός is the pipe) Askomandoura (Greek: ασκομαντούρα): a double-chantered bagpipe used in Crete; Tsampouna (Greek: τσαμπούνα): Greek Islands bagpipe with a double chanter. One chanter with five holes the second with 1,3 or 5 ...

  3. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    Bagpipe Great Highland bagpipe: variable D ♭ 4 - D 4: A minority of bagpipes, made for playing with other instruments, are exactly D ♭ 4 (referred to as B ♭, relative to the tonic note A rather than C). Most bagpipes are sharper than this, between D ♭ 4 and D 4. [1]. Northumbrian smallpipes in F or F+ B ♭ 4 for F (~20 cents sharp for F+)

  4. Uilleann pipes - Wikipedia

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    The air goes from the bag to the chanter, drones, and regulators. The chanter is played with the fingers like a flute. The chanter has a range of two full octaves, including sharps and flats (because, unlike most bagpipe chanters, it can be overblown to produce the higher octave [6]). The chanter is often played resting on the piper's thigh ...

  5. List of woodwind instruments - Wikipedia

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    Western concert flute; Fife; Alto flute; bass flute; Contra-alto flute; Contrabass flute; Subcontrabass flute; Double contrabass flute; Hyperbass flute; Bansuri (India) Irish flute; Koudi (China) Dizi (China) Native American flute; Daegeum (Korea) Nohkan (Japan) Ryūteki (Japan) Shinobue (Japan) Švilpa (Lithuania) Venu (India) Kaval (Anatolian ...

  6. Galician gaita - Wikipedia

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    The Galician gaita (Galician: Gaita galega, Portuguese: Gaita galega, Spanish: Gaita gallega) is the traditional instrument of Galicia and northern Portugal. [ 1 ] The word gaita is used across northern Spain as a generic term for " bagpipe ", although in the south of Spain and Portugal it denotes a variety of horn, flute or oboe like ...

  7. Traditional French musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Mandore — a musical instrument, a small member of the lute family, teardrop shaped, with four to six courses of gut strings and pitched in the treble range. Tambourin à cordes — a box zither from southern France; Ukulele — a small, guitar-like instrument from French Polynesia

  8. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    Set of cylindrical shawm-like instruments, with an air reservoir like a bagpipe: 422.121-62 Baganda peoples of Uganda: endongo [18] Bowl lyre made of lizardskin with strings tied to a piece of wood inserted into two holes on two arms 321.21: Balochs: suroz [19] Bowed string instrument with a long neck, similar to a fiddle or sarangi and played ...

  9. Arabic musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Drawing of Qanun player in 1859, Jerusalem Traditional flute player from Iraqi folk troupe Mizwad, a type of bagpipes played mostly in Tunisia and Libya Mizmar ini Display the Riqq is one of the instruments used only in the Egyptian and Arabic music, and in most of its varieties Sagat in Khan El-Khalili, Cairo