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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+)
In the 2010s, flutes, clarinets and many other woodwind instruments use similar key mechanisms. Mechanical music technology is the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, play back or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music. The earliest known applications ...
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 ...
Folk wind instruments of the area include the Cantabrian pitu montañés, a kind of conical-bored shawm with seven holes in the front and one in the back, which is played in a similar manner to the bagpipe chanter. While it was traditionally made in E-flat, the instrument has been revitalized by Antón Corral, who makes them in D.
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]
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
While "duduk" most commonly refers to the double reed instrument described on this page, there is a very similar instrument played in northwestern Bulgaria. This is a blocked-end flute known as a kaval , resembling the Serbian frula , or kavalče in a part of Macedonia, [ 22 ] and as duduk in northwest Bulgaria.