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  2. Glossary of bagpipe terms - Wikipedia

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    Valves are used in most types of bagpipes to close off the air entry point (the blowpipe), although some pipers simply closed the end of their blowpipe when they took a breath. Vent holes On the Highland bagpipe chanter, the vent holes are two holes with produce low G; the reason for the term vent holes is unclear. The Voice

  3. Category:Bagpiping - Wikipedia

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  4. List of bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Loure, a Norman bagpipe which gives its name to the French Baroque dance loure. Pipasso, a bagpipe native to Picardy in northern France; Sourdeline, an extinct bellows-blown pipe, likely of Italian origin; Samponha, a double-chantered pipe played in the Pyrenees; Vèze (or vessie, veuze à Poitiers), played in Poitou

  5. Great Highland bagpipe - Wikipedia

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    These are thus a transposing instrument in D-flat major (i.e. the pitch at which a notional C, were the bagpipe able to play it, would sound), but in bagpipe terminology are referred to as B ♭ instruments, with the pitch given for the tonic A rather than the C of conventional transposition terminology. As stated, most bagpipes currently sound ...

  6. 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.

  7. Shuttle pipes - Wikipedia

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    Shuttle pipes are a type of bagpipes which derive their name from the drones used to produce the harmony. [1] Rather than the long tube-like drones of most bagpipes, shuttle pipes use a shuttle drone, a cylindrical chamber enclosing a series of folded drone tubes, each terminating in a slot covered by a sliding "shuttle" which can be adjusted to lengthen or shorten the distance traveled by air ...

  8. 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.

  9. Gaita transmontana - Wikipedia

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    The traditional Mirandese bagpipe is closer to the Gaita asturiana than to other regional Portuguese variations. The Portuguese Ministry of Culture officially recognized, in 2007, that Gaita Mirandesa is the correct term for the instrument, and that Gaita Transmontana should no longer be used because it is inaccurate.