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In the early days of pipe bands, rope tension snare drums were common, but as bagpipe tuning pitches became higher, a brighter tone was demanded from the drum corps. Pipe band drummers now play on drums with very tight, knitted kevlar heads, designed for maximum tension to create a very crisp and strident sound. Since today's drum is so facile ...
Scottish pipe band marching in Edinburgh. A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers. There are many such bands in the world, which play for ceremonial purposes, recreation, competition or all three. This list encompasses only notable pipe bands with their own Wikipedia page.
The great Highland bagpipe is widely used by both soloists and pipe bands, both civilian and military, and is now played in countries around the world. It is particularly popular in areas with large Scottish and Irish emigrant populations, mainly England, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
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.
Massed bands A number of pipe bands performing together, commonly after a competition or as part of a military tattoo. Military tattoo A signal sounded (as on a bugle or drum) shortly before Taps. Also evening entertainment given by troops usually in the form of outdoor military exercises with bagpipe music and massed bands.
The Santa Fe band, with members ranging from 13 to 71, will probably contribute some of the youngest and oldest members of the massed band, said pipe major Lisa Lashley.
St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band; Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band; Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band; Glasgow Police Pipe Band; Jack Lee (bagpiper) 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band; Gordon Duncan; Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band; Simon Fraser University Pipe Band; Angus MacKay (piper) Chris Armstrong (piper)
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).