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A Highland bagpipe term for harmonies, usually based around parallel thirds. The effect is often intended to be textural rather than to have genuine musical merit. Shooting board A wood block about 6 by 2 by 1 in (152 by 51 by 25 mm) with a grove running through the long end. Used to make reeds. Single reed
The term ḥabbān (هبان) is one of several Arabic terms for the bagpipes. The term is drawn from Hanbān (هنبان), the Persian word for "bag.". [2] In Gulf states the term habban refers to the traditional Holi (inhabitants of the eastern coast of the Persian Gulf) bagpipe. [3] The habbān is also called the jirbah (جربة). [4]
Mashak, a bagpipe of Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh in northern India. The term is also used for the Highland pipes which have displaced the traditional bagpipe over time, such as the mushak baja (Garhwali : मूषक बाजा): in Garhwal region. or masak-been (Kumaoni : मसकबीन): of the Kumaon Division.
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.
These are thus a transposing instrument in D-flat major (i.e. the pitch at which a notional C, were the bagpipe able to play it, would sound), but in bagpipe terminology are referred to as B ♭ instruments, with the pitch given for the tonic A rather than the C of conventional transposition terminology. As stated, most bagpipes currently sound ...
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The traditional Mirandese bagpipe is closer to the Gaita asturiana than to other regional Portuguese variations. The Portuguese Ministry of Culture officially recognized, in 2007, that Gaita Mirandesa is the correct term for the instrument, and that Gaita Transmontana should no longer be used because it is inaccurate.