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Bagpipes

Index Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. [1]

125 relations: AC/DC, Aerophone, Alaca Höyük, An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, Ancient Greek, Aulos, Żaqq, Bagad, Baghèt, Balkans, Bassoon, Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, BBC News Online, Bellows, Binioù kozh, Bookbinding, Border pipes, Bota bag, Braveheart, Bretons, British Empire, Brittany, Cabrette, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Caucasus, Cauld wind pipes, Chanter, Check valve, Cillian Vallely, Cimpoi, Clan Gregor, College of Piping, Curling, Dawn (newspaper), Delaware, Dio Chrysostom, Double reed, Drone (music), Duda, Eastern United States Pipe Band Association, Electronic bagpipes, English-speaking world, Europe, Gaida, Gairloch, Gaita asturiana, Gaita de boto, Gaita transmontana, Galician gaita, Galician-Portuguese, ..., George Buchanan, Gijón, Glossary of bagpipe terms, Gore-Tex, Great Highland bagpipe, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Hevia, Hittites, Huemmelchen, Indiana University Press, International Bagpipe Museum, It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll), Kaba gaida, Kingdom of Castile, Kozioł (bagpipe), Legato, List of bagpipe books, List of bagpipe makers, List of bagpipers, List of bagpipes, List of nontraditional bagpipe usage, List of pipe bands, List of published bagpipe music, Loeb Classical Library, MacCrimmon (piping family), Melody, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MIDI, Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum, Mull of Kintyre (song), Musette bechonnet, Musette de cour, Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix), My Ladye Nevells Booke, Nero, North Africa, Northumberland, Northumbrian smallpipes, Oboe, Pakistan, Pastoral pipes, Paul McCartney, Persian Gulf, Peter Maxwell Davies, Pipe band, Pitt Rivers Museum, Practice chanter, Reed (mouthpiece), Reed aerophone, Reservoir, Riverdance, Romanians, Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Scottish smallpipes, Shawm, Single-reed instrument, Sruti upanga, Suetonius, Swedish bagpipes, The Bagpipe Society, The Canterbury Tales, The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne, The Skye Boat Song, Tsampouna, Tulum (bagpipe), Turkey, Uilleann pipes, Western Asia, William Byrd, William Dixon manuscript, Woodwind instrument, World Curling Federation, World War I, World War II, Zampogna. Expand index (75 more) »

AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

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Aerophone

An aerophone is any musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.

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Alaca Höyük

Alacahöyük or Alaca Höyük (sometimes also spelled as Alacahüyük, Aladja-Hoyuk, Euyuk, or Evuk) is the site of a Neolithic and Hittite settlement and is an important archaeological site.

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An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise is a classical orchestral composition by the English composer Peter Maxwell Davies.

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Aulos

An aulos (αὐλός, plural αὐλοί, auloi) or tibia (Latin) was an ancient Greek wind instrument, depicted often in art and also attested by archaeology.

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Żaqq

The żaqq (with definite article: iż-żaqq) is the most common form of Maltese bagpipes.

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Bagad

A bagad is a Breton band, composed of bagpipes (Breton: binioù, French: cornemuse), bombards and drums (including snare, tenor and bass drums).

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Baghèt

The baghèt is a bagpipe historically played in Bergamo and Brescia, corresponding to the region of Lombardy in modern Italy.

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Balkans

The Balkans, or the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in southeastern Europe with various and disputed definitions.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.

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Battle of Pinkie Cleugh

The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, sometimes known as the Battle of Pinkie, took place on 10 September 1547 on the banks of the River Esk near Musselburgh, Scotland.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Bellows

A bellows or pair of bellows is a device constructed to furnish a strong blast of air.

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Binioù kozh

Binioù means bagpipe in the Breton language.

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Bookbinding

Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book of codex format from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets.

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Border pipes

The border pipes are a type of bagpipe related to the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe.

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Bota bag

A bota bag or wineskin is a traditional Spanish liquid receptacle.

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Braveheart

Braveheart is a 1995 American epic war film directed by Mel Gibson, who stars as William Wallace, a late 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

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Bretons

The Bretons (Bretoned) are a Celtic ethnic group located in the region of Brittany in France.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh, pronounced or; Gallo: Bertaèyn, pronounced) is a cultural region in the northwest of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Cabrette

The cabrette (French: literally "little goat", alternately musette) is a type of bagpipe which appeared in Auvergne, France in the 19th century, and rapidly spread to Haute-Auvergne and Aubrac.

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Cantigas de Santa Maria

The Cantigas de Santa Maria ("Canticles of Holy Mary"),, are 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile ''El Sabio'' (1221–1284) and often attributed to him.

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Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region located at the border of Europe and Asia, situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and occupied by Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.

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Cauld wind pipes

Cauld wind pipes is a Scottish term referring to any Scottish bagpipe that is bellows-blown rather than blown with the mouth.

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Chanter

The chanter is the part of the bagpipe upon which the player creates the melody.

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Check valve

A check valve, clack valve, non-return valve, reflux valve, retention valve or one-way valve is a valve that normally allows fluid (liquid or gas) to flow through it in only one direction.

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Cillian Vallely

Cillian Vallely is an Irish musician, born in Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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Cimpoi

Cimpoi is the Romanian and Moldovan bagpipe.

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Clan Gregor

Clan Gregor or Clan MacGregorWay, George and Squire, Romily.

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College of Piping

The College of Piping was founded in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1944 by Seumas MacNeill and Thomas Pearston to pass on the art of the Great Highland Bagpipe to all who wanted to learn Scotland's national instrument.

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Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles.

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Dawn (newspaper)

DAWN is Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper.

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Delaware

Delaware is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeastern region.

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Dio Chrysostom

Dio Chrysostom (Δίων Χρυσόστομος Dion Chrysostomos), Dion of Prusa or Dio Cocceianus (c. 40 – c. 115 CE), was a Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the 1st century.

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Double reed

A double reed is a type of reed used to produce sound in various wind instruments.

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Drone (music)

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.

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Duda

The Hungarian duda (also known as tömlősíp and bőrduda) is the traditional bagpipe of Hungary.

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Eastern United States Pipe Band Association

The Eastern United States Pipe Band Association (EUSPBA) is an association of pipe bands in the Eastern United States.

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Electronic bagpipes

The electronic bagpipes is an electronic musical instrument emulating the tone and/or playing style of the bagpipes.

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English-speaking world

Approximately 330 to 360 million people speak English as their first language.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Gaida

A gaida is a bagpipe from the Balkans and Southeast Europe.

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Gairloch

Gairloch (Geàrrloch, meaning "Short Loch") is a village, civil parish and community on the shores of Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross, in the North-West Highlands of Scotland.

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Gaita asturiana

The gaita asturiana is a type of bagpipe native to the autonomous communities of Principality of Asturias and Cantabria on the northern coast of Spain.

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Gaita de boto

The gaita de boto is a type of bagpipe native to the Aragon region of northern Spain.

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Gaita transmontana

The gaita de foles mirandesa (wrongly called the gaita transmontana) is a type of bagpipe native to the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal.

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Galician gaita

The Galician gaita (Gaita galega in galician/Portuguese, and Gaita gallega in Spanish) is the traditional instrument of Galicia and northern Portugal.

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Galician-Portuguese

Galician-Portuguese (galego-portugués or galaico-portugués, galego-português or galaico-português), also known as Old Portuguese or Medieval Galician, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula.

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George Buchanan

George Buchanan (Seòras Bochanan; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar.

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Gijón

Gijón, or Xixón is the largest city and municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias in Spain.

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Glossary of bagpipe terms

This article defines a number of terms that are exclusive, or whose meaning is exclusive, to piping and pipers.

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Gore-Tex

Gore-Tex is a waterproof, breathable fabric membrane and registered trademark of W. L. Gore and Associates.

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Great Highland bagpipe

The Great Highland bagpipe (a' phìob mhòr "the great pipe") is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland.

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Hendrick ter Brugghen

Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen (or Terbrugghen) (1588 – 1 November 1629) was a Dutch painter of genre scenes and religious subjects.

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Hevia

José Ángel Hevia Velasco, known professionally as Hevia (born October 11, 1967 in Villaviciosa, Asturias), is a Spanish bagpiper – specifically, an Asturian gaita player.

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Hittites

The Hittites were an Ancient Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC.

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Huemmelchen

Modern hümmelchen The hümmelchen is a type of small German bagpipe, attested in Syntagma Musicum by Michael Praetorius during the Renaissance.

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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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International Bagpipe Museum

The International Bagpipe Museum (Museo internacional de la gaita) is located in Gijón, Asturias, Spain.

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It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)

"It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC.

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Kaba gaida

The kaba gaida, the Rhodope Mountains bagpipe, is one of the most distinctive symbols of the folklore music in Bulgaria.

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Kingdom of Castile

The Kingdom of Castile (Reino de Castilla, Regnum Castellae) was a large and powerful state on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.

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Kozioł (bagpipe)

Kozioł refers to several variants of bagpipes native to a region of Poland surrounding the city of Zbąszyń.

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Legato

In music performance and notation, legato (Italian for "tied together"; French lié; German gebunden) indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected.

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List of bagpipe books

This is a list of published books about the different kinds of bagpipes.

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List of bagpipe makers

This is a list of bagpipe makers.

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List of bagpipers

This is a list of bagpipers, organized by type of bagpipes.

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List of bagpipes

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List of nontraditional bagpipe usage

This is a list of nontraditional bagpipe usage.

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List of pipe bands

A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers.

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List of published bagpipe music

This is a list of published music covering different types of bagpipes.

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Loeb Classical Library

The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb) is a series of books, today published by Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each left-hand page, and a fairly literal translation on the facing page.

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MacCrimmon (piping family)

The MacCrimmons (Gaelic: MacCruimein) were a Scottish family, pipers to the chiefs of Clan MacLeod for an unknown number of generations.

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Melody

A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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MIDI

MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.

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Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

The Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum is located in Morpeth Chantry, Morpeth, Northumberland, England.

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Mull of Kintyre (song)

"Mull of Kintyre" is a song by the British rock band Wings written by Paul McCartney and Denny Laine.

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Musette bechonnet

The musette bechonnet is a type of bellows-blown French bagpipe which takes its name from its creator, Joseph Bechonnet (1820-1900 AD) of Effiat.

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Musette de cour

The musette de cour or baroque musette is a musical instrument of the bagpipe family.

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Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix)

The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) is located in Phoenix, Arizona.

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My Ladye Nevells Booke

My Ladye Nevells Booke (British Library MS Mus. 1591) is a music manuscript containing keyboard pieces by the English composer William Byrd, and, together with the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, one of the most important collections of Renaissance keyboard music.

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Nero

Nero (Latin: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 15 December 37 – 9 June 68 AD) was the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

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North Africa

North Africa is a collective term for a group of Mediterranean countries and territories situated in the northern-most region of the African continent.

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Northumberland

Northumberland (abbreviated Northd) is a county in North East England.

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Northumbrian smallpipes

The Northumbrian smallpipes (also known as the Northumbrian pipes) are bellows-blown bagpipes from North East England, particularly Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.

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Oboe

Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Pastoral pipes

The Pastoral Pipe (also known as the Scottish Pastoral pipes, Hybrid Union pipes, Organ pipe and Union pipe) was a bellows-blown bagpipe, widely recognised as the forerunner and ancestor of the 19th-century Union pipes, which became the Uilleann Pipes of today.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (lit), (الخليج الفارسي) is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia.

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Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor.

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Pipe band

A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers.

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Pitt Rivers Museum

The Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England.

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Practice chanter

The bagpipe practice chanter is a double reed woodwind instrument whose main function is as an adjunct to the Great Highland bagpipe.

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Reed (mouthpiece)

A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument.

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Reed aerophone

Reed aerophones is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.

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Reservoir

A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.

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Riverdance

Riverdance is a theatrical show consisting mainly of traditional Irish music and dance.

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Romanians

The Romanians (români or—historically, but now a seldom-used regionalism—rumâni; dated exonym: Vlachs) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation native to Romania, that share a common Romanian culture, ancestry, and speak the Romanian language, the most widespread spoken Eastern Romance language which is descended from the Latin language. According to the 2011 Romanian census, just under 89% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians. In one interpretation of the census results in Moldova, the Moldovans are counted as Romanians, which would mean that the latter form part of the majority in that country as well.Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook By David Levinson, Published 1998 – Greenwood Publishing Group.At the time of the 1989 census, Moldova's total population was 4,335,400. The largest nationality in the republic, ethnic Romanians, numbered 2,795,000 persons, accounting for 64.5 percent of the population. Source:: "however it is one interpretation of census data results. The subject of Moldovan vs Romanian ethnicity touches upon the sensitive topic of", page 108 sqq. Romanians are also an ethnic minority in several nearby countries situated in Central, respectively Eastern Europe, particularly in Hungary, Czech Republic, Ukraine (including Moldovans), Serbia, and Bulgaria. Today, estimates of the number of Romanian people worldwide vary from 26 to 30 million according to various sources, evidently depending on the definition of the term 'Romanian', Romanians native to Romania and Republic of Moldova and their afferent diasporas, native speakers of Romanian, as well as other Eastern Romance-speaking groups considered by most scholars as a constituent part of the broader Romanian people, specifically Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians, and Vlachs in Serbia (including medieval Vlachs), in Croatia, in Bulgaria, or in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Royal Palace of Amsterdam

The Royal Palace of Amsterdam in Amsterdam (Dutch: Koninklijk Paleis van Amsterdam or Paleis op de Dam) is one of three palaces in the Netherlands which are at the disposal of the monarch by Act of Parliament.

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Scottish smallpipes

The Scottish smallpipe, in its modern form, is a bellows-blown bagpipe re-developed by Colin Ross and others.

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Shawm

The shawm (/ʃɔːm/) is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day.

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Single-reed instrument

A single-reed instrument is a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound.

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Sruti upanga

The sruti upanga ("drone bagpipe", or bhazana-śruti, druthi, or nosbug) is a type of bagpipe played in Tamil Nadu, southern India.

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Suetonius

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (c. 69 – after 122 AD), was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.

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Swedish bagpipes

Swedish bagpipes (säckpipa, svensk säckpipa) are a variety of bagpipes from Sweden.

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The Bagpipe Society

is an organization based in Britain which aims to bring together players, makers, researchers and people who love the bagpipes.

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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.

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The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne

The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is a 1581 book by John Derricke.

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The Skye Boat Song

"The Skye Boat Song" is a modern Scottish song which has entered into the folk canon in recent times.

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Tsampouna

The tsampouna (or tsambouna; τσαμπούνα) is a Greek folk instrument of the bagpipe family.

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Tulum (bagpipe)

The tulum (or guda (გუდა) in Laz) is a musical instrument, a form of bagpipe from the Laz region of Turkey.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Uilleann pipes

The uilleann pipes are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland.

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Western Asia

Western Asia, West Asia, Southwestern Asia or Southwest Asia is the westernmost subregion of Asia.

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William Byrd

William Byrd (birth date variously given as c.1539/40 or 1543 – 4 July 1623), was an English composer of the Renaissance.

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William Dixon manuscript

The William Dixon manuscript, written down between 1733 and 1738 in Northumberland, is the oldest known manuscript of pipe music from the British Isles, and the most important source of music for the Border pipes.

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Woodwind instrument

Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments.

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World Curling Federation

The World Curling Federation (WCF) is the world governing body for curling accreditation, with offices in Perth, Scotland.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zampogna

Zampogna is a generic term for a number of Italian double chantered pipes that can be found as far north as the southern part of the Marche, throughout areas in Abruzzo, Latium, Molise, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, and Sicily.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipes

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