Definition of Bagpipe. Meaning of Bagpipe. Synonyms of Bagpipe

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Definition of Bagpipe

Bagpipe
Bagpipe Bag"pipe, n. A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland. Note: It consists of a leather bag, which receives the air by a tube that is stopped by a valve; and three sounding pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer. Two of these pipes produce fixed tones, namely, the bass, or key tone, and its fifth, and form together what is called the drone; the third, or chanter, gives the melody.
Bagpipe
Bagpipe Bag"pipe, v. t. To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. --Totten.

Meaning of Bagpipe from wikipedia

- 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...
- Indian bagpipe may refer to: Mashak, a bagpipe found in Northern India and ****stan The Great Highland Bagpipe, pla**** in some parts of India for ceremonies...
- The great Highland bagpipe (Scottish Gaelic: a' phìob mhòr pronounced [a ˈfiəp ˈvoːɾ] lit. 'the great pipe') is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, and...
- Gr**** bagpipe(s) may refer to: Tsampouna, a double-chantered, droneless bagpipe pla**** mostly in the Gr**** Islands Askomandoura, a Cretan bagpipe similar...
- known as Union pipes and Irish pipes, depending on era. Bellows-blown bagpipe with ke**** or un-ke**** 2-octave chanter, 3 drones and 3 regulators. The...
- in Swedish, but is used in English to describe the specifically Swedish bagpipe from the Dalarna region. Medieval paintings in churches suggest that the...
- The kaba gaida ('large gaida') or rodopska gaida (Rhodope gaida), is the bagpipe of the central Rhodope mountains, it is a distinctive symbol of Bulgarian...
- from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2013. "bagpipe". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 16, 2013. v t e v t e...
- Portugal. The word gaita is used across northern Spain as a generic term for "bagpipe", although in the south of Spain and Portugal it denotes a variety of horn...
- The piva is a type of bagpipe pla**** in Italy and in Ticino, the Italian-speaking Canton of Switzerland. The instrument has a single chanter and single...