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unusual facts about bagpipe



78th Fraser Highlanders

During the summer months, one group portraying the regiment performs musket and bagpipe demonstrations at the Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène.

Double clarinet

In Italy, the Sicilian zampogna bagpipe, also called a ciaramedda, is additionally referred to as a "doppio clarinetto" (double clarinet), because of its two equal length single reed chanters.

Folkstone

At the beginning Lore and his tumbler friend Teo started to play Baghèt, the tipical Bergamo’s bagpipe, and after a few month the medieval bagpipe.

Gillidh Callum

Gillidh Callum was a figure in Scottish apocryphal folk belief, said to be Noah's bagpiper.

Greek bagpipes

Dankiyo, a bagpipe played in the historically ethnic Greek regions of Trabzon and Rize in what is now Turkey

Tsampouna, a double-chantered, droneless bagpipe played mostly in the Greek Island

Gaida, a type of bagpipe played in northern Greece as well as parts of Macedonia and the Balkans

Gudmunds Nils Larsson

Gudmund Nils Larsson (1892-1949 CE) was a Swedish bagpipe players from Dala-Järna, western Dalarna, and the last of the traditional Dalarna bagpipe players.

Guthrie Burnett-Tison

He has been building his reputation with the Highland bagpipe, Classical flute, Irish flute, and composition.

Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin

In 2007 20-year-old Nevena Tsoneva sang the song with bagpipe accompaniment as her final performance on Music Idol (Bulgaria's version Pop Idol/American Idol) after becoming the show's first champion.

Lieutenant Pigeon

"Mouldy Old Dough" (the title being an adaptation of the 1920s jazz phrase, "vo-de-o-do") became the second biggest selling UK single of the year, behind The Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards' bagpipe version of "Amazing Grace".

Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

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

Museo della Zampogna

The Museo della Zampogna (Bagpipe Museum) is located in Scapoli, Italy.

Practice chanter

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

Schäferpfeife

This Flemish bagpipe is also known as schäferpfeife, as it is similar in appearance.

Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne

Its archaeological collection is held at the Great North Museum, its bagpipe collection, based on the collection assembled by William Cocks, in Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum, and its collection of manuscripts at the Northumberland Record Office.

The Earth Compels

The poem 'Iceland' reflects the journey MacNeice took with W. H. Auden in the summer of 1936, while 'Bagpipe Music' was inspired by a journey to the Hebrides in 1937 and was later described by MacNeice as 'a satirical elegy for the Gaelic districts of Scotland and indeed for all traditional culture'.

The Last Album

The first track is an untitled improvisational duet between Jimi Hendrix-inspired guitarist and Canned Heat member Henry Vestine and Ayler on bagpipe, but credited as "written" by Henry Vestine and Mary Parks.

Valya Balkanska

Balkanska is most famous in the West for "Izlel je Delyo hajdutin", which she recorded in 1968 accompanied by the bagpipe (gaida) players Lazar Kanevski and Stephan Zahmanov.

Veuze

The veuze is a Breton bagpipe found traditionally in southeastern Brittany and in the northern part of the Vendée, particularly around Nantes, the Guérande peninsula, and Basse-Vilaine.


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