Bagpipes
Family: Wind
How to play: The musician must fill the bag with air by blowing into a pipe. Lung-power is very important in playing the bagpipes.
• In bellows-blown bagpipes, the musician composes melody through finger holes & by moving the bellows with his arms.
• In the case of mouth-blown pipes there is a bag but no bellows. Usually the player composes the melody through making different fingerings on the chanter.
Types: The bagpipe is one of the oldest instruments and it had origin in Scotland. Bagpipes are used in festivites as well as marching bands. There are 2 main types:
1• Mouth-blown bagpipes, played by blowing air into it by mouth
2• Bellows-blown bagpipe, the air is supplied by bellows.
First Known Bagpipes: Early forms of bagpipes existed in ancient Rome, Persia & Greece. The bag was made of the stomach of a bigger animal or animal skin. It used to have 3 parts: a chanter or tube, a bag and a valved tube to prevent the return of air. It's from this form that the modern bagpipes evolved.
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