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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 ...
The musette de cour or baroque musette is a musical instrument of the bagpipe family. Visually, the musette is characterised by the short, cylindrical shuttle-drone and the two chalumeaux. Both the chanters and the drones have a cylindrical bore and use a double reed, giving a quiet tone similar to the oboe. The instrument is blown by a bellows.
Cimpoi is the Romanian bagpipe. Cimpoi has a single drone called bâzoi or bîzoi ("buzzer") and straight bore chanter called carabă ("whistle"). It is less strident than its Balkan relatives. [1] Romanian cimpoi player. The chanter often has five to eight finger holes, and is sometimes curved at the end.
The bass drone (ronco or roncón) is situated on the player's left shoulder and is pitched two octaves below the key note of the chanter; it has a single reed. Some bagpipes have up to two more drones, including the ronquillo or ronquilla , which sticks out from the bag and plays an octave above the ronco , or the smaller chillón .
Bellows-blown bagpipe with keyed or un-keyed 2-octave chanter, 3 drones and 3 regulators. The most common type of bagpipes in Irish traditional music. Great Irish Warpipes: One of the earliest references to the Irish bagpipes comes from an account of the funeral of Donnchadh mac Ceallach, king of Osraige in AD 927. [1]
The earliest known description of such an instrument in Britain is in the Talbot manuscript [7] from about 1695. The descriptions of bagpipes mentioned in this early source are reproduced in [8] One of these instruments was a bellows-blown 'Bagpipe, Scotch', with three drones, whose keyless chanter had a one-octave range from G to g, with each note being sounded by uncovering a single hole, as ...
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A percussive Highland bagpipe embellishment, called leamluath in Gaelic, and sometimes called a throw if used to go to a higher note, e.g. B to C or A to E. Ground The melody on which the variations of a piobaireachd are based. Also known as the Urlar. Goose A set of highland bagpipes without the drones.