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In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. A drone may also be any part of a musical instrument used to produce this effect; an archaic term for this is burden (bourdon or burdon) [1] [2] such as a "drone [pipe] of a bagpipe", [3] [4] the pedal point in an organ, or the lowest course of ...
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).
The musette de cour or baroque musette is a musical instrument of the bagpipe family. Visually, the musette is characterised by the short, cylindrical shuttle-drone and the two chalumeaux. Both the chanters and the drones have a cylindrical bore and use a double reed, giving a quiet tone similar to the oboe. The instrument is blown by a bellows.
When starting the bagpipes, as the pressure is increased, the drones initially sound at a higher pitch, perhaps a semitone or tone higher than normal. As the pressure continues to increase, the drones fully strike in at a normal and smoother pitch. This is deemed to be indicative of a higher quality reed. Doubling
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.
Bagpipe with a chanter, blowpipe, two tenor drones and a bass drone 422.112.2-62 + 422.221.1-621 Serbia: Accordion [127] Accordion, bellow-driven free reed with keys or buttons to modify the air flow chords on an accordion ⓘ 412.132 Serbia: frula [128] svirala, jedinka End-blown wooden flute with six fingerholes 421.211.12 Serbia: gajda [31 ...
Drone music, [2] [3] drone-based music, [4] or simply drone, is a minimalist [5] genre of music that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, [6] notes, or tone clusters called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy compositions featuring relatively slight harmonic variations.
A Koza (meaning "goat") is the generic term for one of five basic types of bagpipes used in Polish folk music. The koza comes from the southern mountainous region of Poland known as Podhale and differs considerably from other types of bagpipes in its construction. Its scale is: b,c,d,e,f,g (with drones on B, f and b). [1]