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  2. Bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Bagpipes are frequently used during funerals and memorials, especially among fire department, military and police forces in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Commonwealth realms, and the U.S. During the 19th and 20th centuries, as a result of the participation of Scottish regiments in British colonial expansion , the bagpipes became well known ...

  3. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Biniou (or biniou kozh "old style bagpipe"): a mouth blown bagpipe from Brittany. The great Highland bagpipe has also been used since the 20th century in marching bands called bagadoù and known as biniou braz ("great bagpipe"). Veuze, found in Western France around Nantes, into the Breton marshes and in the very north of Poitou (Vendée).

  4. Great Highland bagpipe - Wikipedia

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    Bagpipes are rarely played with other instruments due to their tuning. Most other instruments are tuned at standard concert pitch (440 Hz), whilst a bagpipe is tuned around 470–480 Hz. [ 9 ] It is possible to change the pitch by using different chanters and reeds.

  5. Category:History of the bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "History of the bagpipes" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Askaules; B.

  6. Gaita transmontana - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. How Lahaina's more than 150-year-old banyan tree is coming ...

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    When a deadly wildfire tore through Lahaina on Maui last August, the wall of flames scorched the 151-year-old banyan tree along the historic town's Front Street. One year after the fire, here's ...

  8. 30 Christmas Traditions From Around the World - AOL

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    Beyond the familiar traditions like Santa Claus, a fir tree, caroling and gift-giving, a number of countries—including the U.S.—bring their own unique twists, both old and new, to the holiday.

  9. Great Irish warpipes - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest references to the Irish bagpipes comes from an account of the funeral of Donnchadh mac Ceallach, king of Osraige in 927 CE. [2] A likely first reference to bagpipes being played in war is found in a manuscript written between 1484 and 1487 containing an Irish Gaelic version of "Fierabras": the quote " sinnter adharca & píba agaibh do tionól bur sluaigh " translates as ...