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  2. Practice chanter - Wikipedia

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    A practice chanter made out of African blackwood by R.G. Hardie. A bagpipe practice chanter is a double-reed woodwind instrument, principally used as an adjunct to the Great Highland bagpipe. As its name implies, the practice chanter serves as a practice instrument: firstly for learning to finger the different melody notes of bagpipe music, and ...

  3. Opinion - The amazing story behind the hymn ‘Amazing Grace’

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    The Rev. John Newton's hymn "Amazing Grace" has become a national hymn, uniting people of all walks of life and reflecting the Christian view of man as a fallen creature who can do nothing to save ...

  4. Great Highland bagpipe - Wikipedia

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    Practice chanter, a bagless and droneless double-reeded pipe with the same fingerings as the great Highland bagpipe. These are meant to serve as practice instruments which are more portable and less expensive than a set of pipes. Practice goose, a small, single-chanter, droneless bag used to transition between the practice chanter and full pipes

  5. Amazing Grace - Wikipedia

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    "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is possibly the most sung and most recorded hymn in the world, and especially popular in the United States , where it is used for both religious and secular purposes.

  6. Bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    A few bagpipes (such as the musette de cour, the uilleann pipes, the Northumbrian smallpipes, the piva and the left chanter of the surdelina) have closed ends or stop the end on the player's leg, so that when the player "closes" (covers all the holes), the chanter becomes silent. A practice chanter is a chanter without bag or drones and has a ...

  7. Metre (hymn) - Wikipedia

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    The hymn "Amazing Grace" exemplifies a standard form, with a four-line stanza, in which lines with four stressed syllables alternate with lines with three stressed syllables; stressed syllables are rendered in bold. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see.

  8. Southern Harmony - Wikipedia

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    An 1847 publication of Southern Harmony, showing the title "New Britain" ("Amazing Grace") and shape note music. Play ⓘ. The roots of Southern Harmony singing, like the Sacred Harp, are found in the American colonial era, when singing schools convened to provide instruction in choral singing, especially for use in church services.

  9. Practice goose - Wikipedia

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    A practice goose is a small bag used when learning to play the Great Highland Bagpipe. [1] Generally, bagpipe students begin learning on a practice chanter, which is aspirated directly by the player blowing into it. Eventually, as one becomes more proficient, one may switch to a practice goose, which is a small air bladder (significantly ...

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