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    Bagpipes are a type of musical instrument that uses enclosed reeds and an airtight bag to provide a continuous stream of air. All bagpipes have a chanter, which is used to play the melody, and most have at least one drone. The history of the bagpipe is unclear, but they were likely invented in pre-Christian times and depictions of pipers can be found in Greek art. While bagpipes were popular in Britain and Ireland as early as the Dark Ages, their introduction and widespread popularity is debated.

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    Bagpipes are a type of musical instrument that uses enclosed reeds and an airtight bag to provide a continuous stream of air. All bagpipes have a chanter, which is used to play the melody, and most have at least one drone. The history of the bagpipe is unclear, but they were likely invented in pre-Christian times and depictions of pipers can be found in Greek art. While bagpipes were popular in Britain and Ireland as early as the Dark Ages, their introduction and widespread popularity is debated.

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    Bagpipes are a type of musical instrument that uses enclosed reeds and an airtight bag to provide a continuous stream of air. All bagpipes have a chanter, which is used to play the melody, and most have at least one drone. The history of the bagpipe is unclear, but they were likely invented in pre-Christian times and depictions of pipers can be found in Greek art. While bagpipes were popular in Britain and Ireland as early as the Dark Ages, their introduction and widespread popularity is debated.

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    Bagpipes

    Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using


    enclosed reeds. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural,
    although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".

    The bagpipes consist of an airtight bag, which can supply a


    continuous stream of air. Air is supplied either by a set of bellows or
    by a blowpipe; the inlet to the bag has a one-way valve which
    prevents air from returning via the supply.

    Every bagpipe has a chanter, upon which the melody is played,


    and most have at least one drone, although there are a few
    (relatively) important exceptions to this rule. All these pipes are
    attached to the bag by a stock, a small, usually wooden, cylinder
    which is tied into the bag and which the pipe itself plugs into. The
    bag usually consists of leather, but in more recent times many other materials,
    such as rubber and Gore-Tex have become popular amongst many pipers,
    particularly Highland pipers.

    The history of the bagpipe is very unclear, and worse, many of the secondary
    sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth sources are misleading or verging
    on fantasy (the works of Grattan Flood are particularly bad in this respect, but
    continue to be quoted and referenced to the present day). For example, an oft-
    repeated claim is that the Great Highland Bagpipe was banned after the '45 Rising.

    This claim is untrue; there is no mention of the bagpipe in the Act of Proscription,
    and the entire myth seems to stem from the letterpress of Donald MacDonald's
    Martial Music of Caledonia, written by an unknown Romantic. However, it seems
    likely they were first invented in pre-Christian times. Nero is generally accepted to
    have been a player; there are Greek depictions of pipers, and the Roman legions
    are thought to have marched to bagpipes. The idea of taking a leather bag and
    comdining it with a chanter and inflation device seems to have originated in Turkey.

    Where they were first introduced to Britain and Ireland is debatable, though Ireland
    has references going back to the Dark Ages. An explosion of popularity seems to
    have occurred from around the year 1000; the tune used by Robert Burns for
    "Scots Wha Hae", "Hey Tutti Taiti", is traditionally said to have been the tune
    played as Robert the Bruce's troops marched to Bannockburn in 1314.

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