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  2. 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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    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. A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist. The ...

  4. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Säckpipa: Also the Swedish word for "bagpipe" in general, the name is commonly used for the revived Swedish bagpipe, based on surviving säckpipor of the Dalarna region. It has a cylindrical bore and a single reed, and usually a single drone in the same pitch as the bottom note of the chanter.

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  6. 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 ...

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    Today's Wordle Answer for #1257 on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, is SLANG. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.

  8. Tsampouna - Wikipedia

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    The tsampouna (or tsambouna; Greek: τσαμπούνα) is a Greek musical instrument and part of the bagpipe family. It is a double-chantered bagpipe, with no drone, [1] and is inflated by blowing by mouth into a goatskin bag. The instrument is widespread in the Greek islands. [2]

  9. List of aerophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number - Wikipedia

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    In this group also belong reeds with a 'cover,' i.e. a tube in which the air vibrates only in a secondary sense, not producing the sound but simply adding roundness and timbre to the sound made by the reed's vibration; generally recognizable by the absence of fingerholes.