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Brother's Tadhg and Denis Crowley made Warpipes, Highland Pipes, and Uilleann pipes in Cork. [13] David Naill & Co., Ltd. Leslie Cowell Somerset, England Founded 1976. Makers of Scottish Bagpipes, Smallpipes & chanters. [14] Peter Henderson Ltd. Peter Henderson Glasgow, Scotland 1868 1972 One of the famous Scottish bagpipe makers.
Scottish smallpipes are distinguished from the Northumbrian smallpipes by the open ended chanter, and usually by the lack of keys.This means that the sound of the chanter is continuous, rather than staccato, and that its range is only nine notes, rather than the octave and a sixth range of the later 18th/early 19th century Northumbrian pipes.
Although keyless chanters seem to have been common for much of the 18th century, the earliest evidence of the introduction of a keyed chanter is the illustration and fingering chart in John Peacock's tunebook, A Favorite Collection of Tunes with Variations Adapted for the Northumberland Small Pipes, Violin, or Flute, [13] first published by William Wright, of Newcastle, in about 1800.
Huemmelchen: small bagpipe with the look of a small medieval pipe or a Dudelsack. Dudy or kozoł (Lower Sorbian kózoł) are large types of bagpipes (in E flat) played among the (originally) Slavic-speaking Sorbs of Eastern Germany, near the borders with both Poland and the Czech Republic; smaller Sorbian types are called dudki or měchawa (in F).
The D pipes are most commonly used in ensembles, while the flat-pitched pipes are more often used for solo playing – often fiddlers will tune down their instrument to play with a piper's flat set, but the inflexibility of other instruments used in Irish music (accordions, flutes, etc.) does not usually permit this. It is noteworthy that Irish ...
Border pipes, an instrument often confused with the Scottish smallpipes Index of articles associated with the same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).