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A well-known traditional Scottish instrument is the Great Highland Bagpipes, a wind instrument consisting of three drones and a melody pipe (called the chanter), which are fed continuously by a reservoir of air in a bag.
Some Fun Facts About Scotland by Albert Beetons / Travel, recreation and leisure community
Chris Jones Waxhaw, NC Jesse Walker responds: My article was specifically and explicitly about the Great Highland Bagpipe, an iconically Scottish device, and not the larger bagpipe family of instruments, which is not only much older but originated far away from the British Isles.
Hear! Hear the pipes are calling by Jones, Chris; Walker, Jesse / Reason
It is that use of the Great Highland Bagpipe in the lineup which marked them out as rather different.
Continuing a winning formula with bagpipes; Philip Key's 08 Culture ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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