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  2. 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.

  3. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Pastoral pipes: Although the exact origin of this keyed, or un-keyed chanter and keyed drones (regulators), pipe is uncertain, it was developed into the modern Uilleann bagpipe. Yorkshire bagpipes, known in Shakespeare's time, but now extinct; Lincolnshire bagpipes, a one-drone pipe extinct by 1850, with one reproduction made in the modern era

  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. Pastoral pipes - Wikipedia

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    This bagpipe was commonly played in the Lowlands of Scotland, Northern England and Ireland from the mid-18th until the early 20th century. [7] It was a precursor of what are now known as uilleann pipes, and there were several well-known makers over a large geographic area, including London, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dublin, and Newcastle upon Tyne.

  6. List of bagpipers - Wikipedia

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    2 Highland Bagpipers. ... 7 Swedish bagpipes. 8 Uilleann pipes. 9 Other notable bagpipers. 10 Notable bands with nontraditional use of bagpipes. 11 See also.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Irish traditional music - Wikipedia

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    Uilleann pipes are among the most complex forms of bagpipes; they possess a chanter with a double reed and a two-octave range, three single-reed drones, and, in the complete version known as a full set, a trio of (regulators) all with double reeds and keys worked by the piper's forearm, capable of providing harmonic support for the melody ...

  9. Glossary of bagpipe terms - Wikipedia

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    Binioù-bras means Great (Highland) Bagpipe in the Breton language. See Pib-Veur. Binioù-ilin Binioù-ilin means Uilleann Pipes in the Breton language. Binioù-kozh Binioù-kozh is the traditional Breton Bagpipe. Birl Onomatopoeic name for a Highland bagpipe embellishment on low A, consisting of two very fast taps or strikes to low G. Blade

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