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bagpipe Definition

bag·pipe (bagpīp′)

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

bagpipe Related Forms
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.

—Anonymous

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