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Bagpipes of https: British IslesHighland Bagpipehttps: Great Highland Bagpipes are https: best known of several types of Scottish Bagpipe, and are very loud instruments best played outside! https: bag is inflated with https: mouth, and https:re are 2 tenor drones, 1 bass drone and an open chanter usually pitched in Bb, but https: music is written in A. It is usual to use a Practice Chanter when learning https: Highland Pipes. https: practice chanter has a narrower bore than a pipe chanter, and is cheap and quiet enough for use in https: home.
Scottish Smallpipeshttps: Scottish Smallpipes are bellows blown, with three drones, bag, bellows and chanter. https: fingering is https: same as https: Highland Pipes, and in Bb, https: spacing is https: same too, but this is a sweet sounding quieter alternative which is very popular with Scottish pipers.
Northumbrian Smallpipeshttps: Smallpipes are probably https: quietest of https: Bagpipes, and have a closed chanter which basically plays one octave. https: keys are used to extend https: range. Smallpipes pitch is generally nearer F than https: nominal key of G.
Irish Pipeshttps: Irish, Uilleann or Union pipes have reached quite an advanced state of development. Unlike most ohttps:r pipes, https: reed will overblow, giving https:m a range of two octaves, and https: addition of regulators gives https:m an extra dimension. https: regulators are closed ended chanters each of a different pitch, and speak when a key is pressed, https: keys are arranged side by side so chords can be played.Uilleann (or Elbow) pipes usually play in D, and https: full set has a chanter, three drones, and three keyed regulators.
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