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  2. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Bellows-blown bagpipe with keyed or un-keyed 2-octave chanter, 3 drones and 3 regulators. The most common type of bagpipes in Irish traditional music. Great Irish Warpipes: One of the earliest references to the Irish bagpipes comes from an account of the funeral of Donnchadh mac Ceallach, king of Osraige in AD 927. [1]

  3. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 421

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    421.21 Flutes with external duct - The duct is outside the wall of the flute; this group includes flutes with the duct chamfered in the wall under a ring-like sleeve and other similar arrangements. 421.211 (Single) flutes with external duct. 421.211.1 Open flutes with external duct. 421.211.11 Without fingerholes. 421.211.12 With fingerholes.

  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. 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 ...

  6. 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

  7. Pipe (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Hornpipes are instruments with one or more pipes that have single reeds that terminate in a resonator made of horn. Simple instruments may consist of little more than the reed, the pipe, and the resonator. More complex instruments may have multiple pipes held in a common yoke, multiple resonators, or horn mouthpieces to facilitate playing.

  8. List of European medieval musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    1534-1536, Italy. Double fipple flutes, with 3 holes, similar to the 3 hole reedpipes. Circa 1474, Italy. Double flute (right) each with full set of fingerhoes. Also lute and tambourine, from Matteo di giovanni, assunzione della vergine. Gemshorn: A recorder made from horn. [46] Common to use ox horn after 1375 A.D. [46] Originally made from ...

  9. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)