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  2. Musical instrument - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Bloemaert playing a bagpipe.. A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument.

  3. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    The Macedonian bagpipe can be two-voiced or three-voiced, depending on the number of drone elements. The most common are the two-voiced bagpipes. The three-voiced bagpipes have an additional small drone pipe called slagarche (pronounced slagar'-che) (Macedonian: слагарче).

  4. 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.

  5. Drone (sound) - Wikipedia

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    In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. A drone may also be any part of a musical instrument used to produce this effect; an archaic term for this is burden (bourdon or burdon) [1] [2] such as a "drone [pipe] of a bagpipe", [3] [4] the pedal point in an organ, or the lowest course of ...

  6. Uilleann pipes - Wikipedia

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    The tone of the uilleann pipes is unlike that of many other forms of bagpipes. They have a different harmonic structure, sounding sweeter and quieter than many other bagpipes, such as the Great Irish warpipes, Great Highland bagpipes or the Italian zampognas. The uilleann pipes are often played indoors, and are almost always played sitting down.

  7. Glossary of bagpipe terms - Wikipedia

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    Winning the two premier Highland bagpipe competitions (Oban and Inverness) in the same year. A feat only rarely achieved. Double tone When starting the bagpipes, as the pressure is increased, the drones initially sound at a higher pitch, perhaps a semitone or tone higher than normal.

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  9. Woodwind instrument - Wikipedia

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    Flutes produce sound by directing a focused stream of air across the edge of a hole in a cylindrical tube. [2] [3] The flute family can be divided into two subfamilies: open flutes and closed flutes. [4] To produce a sound with an open flute, the player is required to blow a stream of air across a sharp edge that then splits the airstream.