Posted
on March 10, 2015
Sure,
I'll celebrate that!
Especially
because the music
produced is so...plaintive...and haunting.
We
generally associate the bagpipes with Celtic culture, especially with
the Scottish people, but bagpipes of sorts have also been played for
centuries all over Europe and in places like Turkey, around the
Persian Gulf, and in Northern Africa. Obviously, girls and women can
play bagpipes, too!
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| Armenian pipes |
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| Syrian piper |
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| Spanish medieval bagpipes |
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| Pipes from Serbia |
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| Scottish bagpipes |
The
anatomy of bagpipes
The
blowpipe is – you guessed it! – how the piper blows air into the
bag.
The
bag is an airtight reservoir that holds the air blown in until it is squeezed and released. It's because of this bag
that the piper can maintain continuous sound.
The
chanter is the melody pipe. It is played with both hands. Chanters
have single or double reeds that vibrate and thus create sound. Most
chanters have open ends, and there is no easy way for the player to
create silences or “rests.”
The
drone is a pipe that is not fingered. Like the chanter, it has a
single or double reed. The drone produces a constant harmonizing note
throughout the play. Many bagpipes have multiple drones.
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