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  2. Great Highland bagpipe - Wikipedia

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    In Brittany, the great Highland bagpipe is known as the binioù braz, in contrast to the binioù kozh, the small traditional Breton bagpipe. One notable development of the Highland bagpipe in Brittany is the creation of slightly shorter drones in C (Scottish "B"; see notes on tuning above), so that the many tunes played in that key will have ...

  3. 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.

  4. Music of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Though bagpipes are closely associated with Scotland, the instrument (or, more precisely, family of instruments) is found throughout large swathes of Europe, North Africa and South Asia. The most common bagpipe heard in modern Scottish music is the Great Highland Bagpipe, which was spread by the Highland regiments of the British Army ...

  5. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Swedish bagpipes, säckpipa, made by Leif Eriksson. Säckpipa: Also the Swedish word for "bagpipe" in general, the name is commonly used for the revived Swedish bagpipe, based on surviving säckpipor of the Dalarna region. It has a cylindrical bore and a single reed, and usually a single drone in the same pitch as the bottom note of ...

  6. Binioù - Wikipedia

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    The binioù is a type of bagpipe.The word binioù means 'bagpipe' in the Breton language.. There are two bagpipes called binioù in Brittany: the traditional binioù kozh or biniou-bihan (kozh means 'old' in Breton; bihan means 'small') and the binioù bras or binioù braz (bras means 'big'), which was brought into Brittany from Scotland in the late 19th century. [1]

  7. The Queen’s Piper will help close her state funeral with a rendition of the traditional piece Sleep, Dearie, Sleep. Pipe Major Paul Burns, the monarch’s personal player at the time of her ...

  8. Sleep, Dearie, Sleep - Wikipedia

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    Sleep, Dearie, Sleep is a traditional Scottish lament for the bagpipes. The tune is used as a lament signal in Highland army regiments. The tune is used as a lament signal in Highland army regiments. It gained prominence when it was played during the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on 19 September 2022.

  9. Her lone personal piper – whose time playing the bagpipes outside her window each morning to wake her is at an end – performed the traditional sweetly titled lament Sleep, Dearie, Sleep. Show ...

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