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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.
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 ...
Robin With the Bagpipe: The English Bagpipe and Its Music. Ashby Parva: White House Tune Books. ISBN 0-907772-52-8. English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 - Google Books Result; JSTOR: Pipers' Pabulum; JSTOR: Music in the World's Proverbs; JSTOR: Two-Chanter Bagpipes in England; JSTOR: Chaucer's Millers and Their Bagpipes
English border pipes have been reconstructed by Swayne, and they have in common with the Lowland Scottish pipes above 2-4 drones in a single stock, but the design of the chanter (melody pipe) is closer to the French cornemuse du centre and uses the same "half-closed" fingering system. Cornish bagpipes: an extinct type of double chanter bagpipe ...
Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript. The Dunhuang manuscripts are a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Paul Pelliot and Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu, China, from 1906 to 1909.
The earliest references to bagpipes in Scotland are in a military context, and it is in that context that the great Highland bagpipe became established in the British military and achieved the widespread prominence it enjoys today, whereas other bagpipe traditions throughout Europe, ranging from Portugal to Russia, almost universally went into ...
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 ...
The word is a reborrowing of zampogna, the word for the Italian double chantered pipes. [3] Tsampouna is etymologically related to the Greek sumfōnia ( Greek : συμφωνία ), meaning "concord or unison of sound" [ 4 ] (from σῠν- sun-, "with, together" + φωνή phōnḗ, "sound") and applied later to a type of bagpipe.