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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.
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.
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
[1] [4] He gave lessons around Scotland arranged by the Piobaireachd Society, and in from 1910 became involved in formal Army teaching with the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming. [1] For much of his life he worked as a travelling whisky salesman, a job he held at various intervals until 1947. [1]
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.
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The chanter of the Great Highland bagpipe. The chanter is the part of the bagpipe upon which the player creates the melody.It consists of a number of finger-holes, and in its simpler forms looks similar to a recorder.
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]