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His business is the only in North America to make, sell, and teach how to play bagpipes, and one of the few stores offering custom bagpipe making in the world. Born in the 1950s in Glasgow, Scotland , MacLellan graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1980 after studying metalsmithing and woodworking .
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.
This is a list of bagpipe makers. It covers both family-based and commercial outfits from the 17th century to the present era. In the 1950s, the bagpipe traditions of ...
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).
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; ... Compositions for bagpipe (15 P) E. Piping events (1 C, 9 P) H. History of the ...
The Associação Gaita-de-fole (Bagpipe Society) is a non-profit organization, founded officially in 1994 by enthusiasts of the Portuguese folk traditions — specially the related with the Transmontan and Galician bagpipes. The volunteers contribute in a variety of ways, as artisans, musicians, anthropologists and teachers, both professional ...
The Scottish smallpipe is a bellows-blown bagpipe re-developed by Colin Ross and many others, adapted from an earlier design of the instrument. There are surviving bellows-blown examples of similar historical instruments as well as the mouth-blown Montgomery smallpipes, dated 1757, which are held in the National Museum of Scotland . [ 1 ]
The kaba gaida ('large gaida' [1]) or rodopska gaida (Rhodope gaida), is the bagpipe of the central Rhodope mountains, it is a distinctive symbol of Bulgarian folk music.It is made from wood, horn, animal skin and cotton, and is similar to the gaida, but lower pitched and usually with a larger bag.