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  2. Great Highland bagpipe - Wikipedia

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    The great Highland bagpipe (Scottish Gaelic: a' phìob mhòr pronounced [a ˈfiəp ˈvoːɾ] lit. 'the great pipe') is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, and the Scottish analogue to the great Irish warpipes. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world.

  3. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Great Highland Bagpipe: This is perhaps the world's best-known bagpipe. It is native to Scotland. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world. The bagpipe is first attested in Scotland around 1400, having previously appeared in European artwork in Spain in the 13th century.

  4. Hugh Robertson (instrument maker) - Wikipedia

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    A set of 18th-century union pipes in boxwood, ivory and brass mounts with two regulators and drone cut-off switch; by Hugh Robertson. The first commercial bagpipe makers were prior to 1750 in Edinburgh and Glasgow and skilled musical instrument makers were often wood turners by profession, and began to craft instrument to a design individual to the makers style and innovations.

  5. Bagpipes - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Great Irish warpipes - Wikipedia

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    Irish warpipes (Irish: píob mhór; literally "great pipes") are an Irish analogue of the Scottish great Highland bagpipe. "Warpipes" is originally an English term. The first use of the Gaelic term in Ireland was recorded in a poem by Seán Ó Neachtain (c. 1650–1728), in which the bagpipes are referred to as píb mhór. [1]

  7. Canntaireachd - Wikipedia

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    Canntaireachd (Scottish Gaelic for 'chanting'; pronounced [ˈkʰãũn̪ˠt̪ɛɾʲəxk]) is the ancient method of teaching, learning and memorizing Piobaireachd (also spelt Pibroch), a type of music primarily played on the Great Highland bagpipe. In the canntairached method of instruction, the teacher sings or hums the tune to the pupil ...

  8. A Hilton Head Island relic washed up thousands of miles ... - AOL

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    She’d already mentioned to her sons, one of them who studying piping — both the Highland bagpipes and small pipes, that “Piping Plovers” would be a great band name. They turned her down.

  9. List of bagpipe makers - Wikipedia

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    American Bagpipe Makers Inc. Charles E. Kron: Dobbs Ferry, NY: 1987? [7] Rolf of Sweden Rolf Littorin: Sweden 1990s Custom made bagpipes: Great Highland Bagpipes, Smallpipes, Practice Chanters. Self-taught pipe maker. [8] William Sinclair and Son William M. Sinclair: Edinburgh, Scotland 1926 [9] MacLellan Bagpipes Roddy MacLellan: Monroe, NC

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