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The Concise History of the Bagpipe by Frank J. Timoney; The Bagpipe Society, dedicated to promoting the study, playing, and making of bagpipes and pipes from around the world; Bagpipes from polish collections (Polish folk musical instruments) Bagpipes (local polish name "Koza") played by Jan Karpiel-Bułecka (English subtitles)
Polig Monjarret led the introduction of the Great Highland bagpipe to Brittany during the Celtic revival of the 1920s Breton folk music scene, inventing the bagad, a pipe band incorporating a binioù braz section, a bombarde section, a drums section, and in recent years almost any added grouping of wind instruments such as the saxophones, and ...
Great Highland Bagpipe: This is perhaps the world's best-known bagpipe. It is native to Scotland. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world. The bagpipe is first attested in Scotland around 1400, having previously appeared in European artwork in Spain in the 13th century.
The first bagpipes to be well attested for Ireland were similar, if not identical, to the Scottish Highland bagpipes that are now played in Scotland. These are known as the " Great Irish Warpipes ". In Irish and Scottish Gaelic , this instrument was called the píob mhór ("great pipe").
The music for the bagpipe has much in common with the melodies of old Estonian so-called runic songs. A number of tunes, like the instrument itself, are of foreign origin. Supposedly they chiefly derive from Sweden. The Swedish influence is suggested by the texts of dance songs for the bagpipe, and the dances themselves also seem to come from ...
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 ...
The instrument is widespread in the Greek islands. [2] 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 ...
The pipasso was traditionally played by shepherds in festival processions, [1] and was often played alongside popular instruments such as the hurdy-gurdy and the fiddle. However, by the 1700s, [1] it had largely been replaced by the fiddle and by bass instruments. There are a few outliers in the tradition that continued on beyond the 1700s.