Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Zampogna (UK: / z æ m ˈ p ɒ n j ə /, [1] US: / z æ m ˈ p oʊ n j ə, (t) s ɑː m ˈ-/, [2] Italian: [dzamˈpoɲɲa]) is a generic term for a number of Italian double chantered bagpipes that can be found throughout areas in Abruzzo, Latium, Molise, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Apulia, Sicily, and as far north as the southern part of the Marche.
Degerpipes electronic bagpipe chanter. The electronic bagpipes is an electronic musical instrument emulating the tone and/or playing style of the bagpipes. Most electronic bagpipe emulators feature a simulated chanter, which is used to play the melody. Some models also produce a harmonizing drone(s). Some variants employ a simulated bag ...
Harley became inspired to learn the bagpipe after seeing the Black Watch perform in John F. Kennedy's funeral procession in November 1963. Then a maintenance worker for Philadelphia's housing authority, Harley began searching the city for a set of bagpipes. Failing to find one, he traveled to New York City, where he found a set in a pawn shop.
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 instrument is widespread in the Greek islands. [2] The word is a reborrowing of zampogna , the word for the Italian double chantered pipes. [ 3 ] Tsampouna is etymologically related to the Greek sumfōnia ( Greek : συμφωνία ), meaning "concord or unison of sound" [ 4 ] (from σῠν- sun-, "with, together" + φωνή phōnḗ ...
VistaPro is 3D scenery generator for the Amiga, Macintosh, MS-DOS, and Microsoft Windows.It was written by John Hinkley as the follow-up to the initial version, Vista. [1] [2] The about box describes it as "a 3-D landscape generator and projector capable of accurately displaying real-world and fractal landscapes."
Xeremia. The xeremia (Catalan pronunciation: [ʃəɾəˈmi.ə], plural xeremies) is a type of bagpipe native to the island of Majorca (Mallorca). [1] It consists of a bag made of skin (or modern synthetic materials), known as a sac or sarró which retains the air, a blowpipe (bufador), a melody pipe or chanter (grall), and several, generally three, drones (bordons).
MacNeill, Seamus, and Thomas Pearston, The College of Piping Highland Bagpipe Tutor for Piobaireachd, Pt. 4. (with CD). (Note: Angus J. Maclellan plays and teaches the 4 Piobaireachds in the College of Piping's Yellow Tutor, volume 4). Glasgow, Scotland: College of Piping. The College of Piping Highland Bagpipe Tutor, Pt. 1.