Bagpipes

The bagpipe is a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Scottish Great Highland bagpipe is well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, North Africa, West Asia, around the Persian Gulf and northern parts of South Asia.

characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland

traditional bagpipe from North Turkey and Macedonia

type of bagpipe native to Scotland

musical instrument of the bagpipe family

variety of bagpipes from Sweden

thumb|right|300px| The '''''' is a type of bagpipe. The word means 'bagpipe' in the Breton language.

thumb|right|Mizwad right|300px|thumb The Mezoued Tunisian Arabic : مِزْود; plural مَزاود mazāwid, literally "sack," “bag,” or “food pouch”) is a type of bagpipes played in Tunisia, The instrument consists of a skin bag made from ewe's leather, with a joined double-chanter, terminating in two cow horns, similar to a hornpipe (instrument).This instrument is played with a single-reed.

thumb|right|300px|Boha made in 2003

bellows-blown bagpipes from Northeastern England

traditional bagpipe of Galicia

right|thumb|250px|Various tsampounas from the Cyclades and Dodecanese islands The tsampouna (or tsambouna; ) is a Greek musical instrument and part of the bagpipe family. It is a double-chantered bagpipe, with no drone, and is inflated by blowing by mouth into a goatskin bag. The instrument is widespread in the Greek islands. The word is a reborrowing of zampogna, the word for the Italian double chantered pipes. Tsampouna is etymologically related to the Greek sumfōnia (), meaning "concord or unison of sound" (from σῠν- sun-, "with, together" + φωνή phōnḗ, "sound") and applied later to a type

bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Asturias, northern León and western Cantabria

thumb|400px|Torupill pipers The torupill () is a traditional bagpipe from Estonia.

Catalan bagpipe

Aragonese bagpipes

250px|right|thumb|Cabrette player Jean Rascalou

The cimpoi (, ; also ) is a Romanian folk woodwind musical instrument and a regional variety of the bagpipe. It is an aerophone consisting of an air reservoir (bag) and several pipes: a blowpipe, a drone, and a melody pipe (chanter).

right|thumb|250px|Xeremia The xeremia (, plural xeremies) is a type of bagpipe native to the island of Majorca (Mallorca). It consists of a bag made of skin (or modern synthetic materials), known as a sac or sarró which retains the air, a blowpipe (bufador), a melody pipe or chanter (grall), and several, generally three, drones (bordons). The primary drone (roncó) sounds a tonic note, but the other drones are sometimes simply false drones for ornamentation.

musical instrument

thumb|Zampogna Zampogna ( , , ) is a generic term for a number of Italian double chantered bagpipes that can be found throughout areas in Latium. The tradition is now mostly associated with Christmas, and the most famous Italian carol, "Tu scendi dalle stelle", is derived from traditional zampogna music. However, there is an ongoing resurgence of the instrument in secular use seen with the increasing number of folk music festivals and folk music every December by Italian ensembles.

Diple (pluralia tantum; pronounced , from Greek ), also known as misnjiče, miješnice and mih, is a traditional woodwind musical instrument originating in the Adriatic Littoral. It is played in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, and Serbia.

The parkapzuk () is a droneless, horn-belled bagpipe played in Armenia. The double-chanters each have five or six finger-holes, but the chanters are tuned slightly apart, giving a "beat" as the soundwaves of each interfere, resulting in a penetrating tone. Researchers in 1996 and 1997 noted they recorded one of the last active pipers of that time.

thumb|Zukra on display at the Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix)|Musical Instrument Museum The zukra (or zokra or zoughara, ) is a Libyan bagpipe with a double-chanter terminating in two cow horns; it is similar in construction to the Tunisian mizwad.

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thumb|150px|A musician with an Italian baghèt wearing traditional dress 150px|right|thumb|A modern baghet (made 2000 by Valter Biella) in Sol/G

French bagpipe

type of bellows-blown bagpipe

musical instrument

type of bagpipe native to the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal

thumb thumb|right|250px|Alphonse Gheux, Wallonian piper