bagpipe
bagpipe
Definition
bag·pipe (bag′pīp′)
noun
a shrill-toned musical instrument with one double-reed pipe operated by finger stops and one or more drone pipes, all of them sounded by air forced with the arm from a leather bag, which is kept filled by the breath: now played chiefly in Scotland
bag′·pip′er noun
bagpipe
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- harp: The three most important Scottish instruments are the harp, bagpipe, and fiddle.
- play: Everything you need to know to play the bagpipe.
- have: By and by you will have a dead parliamentary bagpipe, and your living man fled away without return!
Preposition: with
- chanter: It shows a piper playing a bagpipe with two very long chanters of slightly different lengths with small bell ends.
Adjective modifier
- English: They are the only English Bagpipe to have a continuous pedigree.
- Irish: Perhaps it is now the turn of the Irish Bagpipe to become popular in Scotland.
- Scottish: SCOTTISH BAGPIPES The highland pipes are the best known of several types of Scottish bagpipe, and are very loud and powerful instruments.
- double: The Altarnun bagpiper ( left ), with a present-day York Wait ( right ) playing a similar double chanter bagpipe for comparison.
Modifies a noun
- playing: LISTEN out tonight for some fine traditional bagpipe playing by Mike Cummins at the Warwick Folk Club.
- tune: An appraisal of these melodies reveals how widely these bagpipe tunes were diffused throughout the entire Hungarian language area.
- maker: Details of a number of bagpipe makers can be found at the Links page on this site.
- music: Bagpipe music is provided by The Coldstream Pipe Band, usually by Pipe Major Robert Bell or his son, Pipe Sergeant Duncan Bell.
- museum: Two major international bagpipe museums have comissioned pipes from me.
- player: Next, some Scottish bagpipe players came down the hall in the middle of us all.
Noun used with modifier
- highland: The Museum of Piping 30-34 McPhater Street, Glasgow, G4 0HW The world's leading museum on the highland bagpipe.
- chanter: The Altarnun bagpiper ( left ), with a present-day York Wait ( right ) playing a similar double chanter bagpipe for comparison.
- century: This second drone is a frequent feature of many 16th Century bagpipe illustrations.
bagpipe Quotes
Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
