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 Bagpipers from Asturias | |
| Woodwind instrument | |
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| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 422.112 (Reed aerophone with conical bore) |
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Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, around the Persian Gulf and northern parts of South Asia.
The term bagpipe is equally correct in the singular or the plural, though pipers usually refer to the bagpipes as "the pipes", "a set of pipes" or "a stand of pipes".[1][2]
- ^ Wright, J. The English dialect dictionary. Рипол Классик. ISBN 9785878652940 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Unknown #33".