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Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, around the Persian Gulf and northern parts of South Asia.
The Macedonian bagpipe can be two-voiced or three-voiced, depending on the number of drone elements. The most common are the two-voiced bagpipes. The three-voiced bagpipes have an additional small drone pipe called slagarche (pronounced slagar'-che) (Macedonian: слагарче).
King Edward VII, (1841–1910); King Edward VIII, (1894–1972); Daniel Laidlaw, (1875–1950), VC Piper in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers who received the Victoria Cross during World War I, the highest award for gallantry that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces
Practice goose, a small, single-chanter, droneless bag used to transition between the practice chanter and full pipes; Reel pipes (or "kitchen" or "parlour" pipes), smaller versions of the great Highland bagpipe for indoor playing; Scottish smallpipes are a modern interpretation of extinct smaller Scottish pipes used for recreational music.
He was born in Aberdeen on 11 March 1934, and first learned to play the practice chanter at the age of four from his father John, who was also a piper. [1]The family moved to Edinburgh when the elder John took up a lecturing position at the Veterinary School. [2]
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About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; ... Compositions for bagpipe (15 P) E. Piping events (1 C, 9 P) H. History of the ...
This is a list of bagpipe makers. It covers both family-based and commercial outfits from the 17th century to the present era. In the 1950s, the bagpipe traditions of ...