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About the Bagpipe:
Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe."
Equipment costs:
Low end Bagpipe: £
High end Bagpipe: £
High end Bagpipe: £
Accessories:
- Chanters
- Reeds
- Blowsticks
- Bags, Covers & Cords
- Cases
- Beeswax
- Drone Brushes
- Drone Stoppers
Genres played on the Bagpipe:
- Folk Music
- Tango
- Classical music
Famous players:
- Kevin Briley - Uilleann Pipes
- Neil Mulligan - Uilleann Pipes
- Jack Armstrong - Northumbrian Smallpipes
- Sean Folsom - Northumbrian Smallpipes
- Gail Brown - Highland Bagpipes
- Fredgie Fomm - Highland Bagpipes
Famous songs & albums:
- Eric Burdon and the Animals' "Sky Pilot".
- Paul McCartney's "Mull of Kintyre".
- AC/DC's "It's A Long Way To The Top".
History:
The earliest possible reference to a bagpipe occurs around 400 BC, when Aristophones, the Athenian poet jibed that the pipers of Thebes (an enemy of Athens) blew pipes made of dogskin with chanters made of bone. Several hundred years later, Suetonius desc
Type of Bagpipe:
- Great Highland Bagpipe
- Northumbrian smallpipes: a smallpipe with a closed end chanter played in staccatto
- Border pipe: also called the "Lowland Bagpipe", commonly confused with smallpipes, but much louder
- Scottish smallpipes: a modern re-interpretation of
- Border pipes
- Scottish smallpipes
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