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2. Uilleann pipes - Wikipedia

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   The tone of the uilleann pipes is unlike that of many other forms of bagpipes. They have a different harmonic structure, sounding sweeter and quieter than many other bagpipes, such as the Great Irish warpipes, Great Highland bagpipes or the Italian zampognas. The uilleann pipes are often played indoors, and are almost always played sitting down.

3. Great Irish warpipes - Wikipedia

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   Today, pipe bands of essentially the same kind as the Highland form are a standard feature of British regiments with Irish honours and the Irish Defence Forces, and there are many local bands throughout both the Republic and Northern Ireland. The Irish warpipes as played today are one and the same as the Scottish great Highland bagpipe.

4. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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   The Warpipe differed from the latter only in having a single tenor drone. Irish warpipes fell out of use for centuries due to the British outlawing them; whence the Scottish bagpipes took the place of the Irish bagpipes role in the British army. Warpipes today are rarer specialty instruments in military and civilian pipe bands, or private ...

5. Bagpiper Terry Carroll played at hundreds of events. His ...

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   Born in New Jersey and raised in Ireland, Terry Carroll moved to Okemos in 1980, where playing the bagpipes became his trademark. He died Feb. 20. Bagpiper Terry Carroll played at hundreds of events.

6. Pastoral pipes - Wikipedia

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   The pastoral bagpipe may have been the invention of an expert instrument maker who was aiming at the Romantic market. The pastoral pipes, and later union pipes, were certainly a favourite of the upper classes in Scotland, Ireland and the North-East of England and were fashionable for a time in formal social settings, where the term "union pipes ...

7. 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.

8. Queen Elizabeth's Alarm Clock Is Live Bagpipes - AOL

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9. Traditional music of Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias - Wikipedia

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   Their origin is shrouded in mystery, with some scholars asserting Gregorian chants as a major source, while others fancily point to Greek or Phoenician rowing songs called alelohuías. Alalás are arhythmic, and based on a single, short theme that repeats the melody, separated by instrumental bagpipes or a cappella interludes. Melodies are ...