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What (who) is BAGPIPES - definition

REED WIND INSTRUMENT WHICH IN ITS COMMONEST FORMS CONSISTS OF A CHANTER AND ONE OR MORE DRONES, ALL SUPPLIED WITH AIR FROM THE BAG, WHICH IS COMPRESSED UNDER THE PLAYER’S ARM TO PROVIDE A CONSTANT PRESSURE

Bagpipe; Bag pipes; Bagpiping; Bag-pipe; Bag pipe; Gajde; Gaida; Bagpipe Maintenance; Stock (bagpipe); Schäfferpfeife; Drone (bagpipes)

bagpipes

Note: The form 'bagpipe' is used as a modifier.

Bagpipes are a musical instrument that is traditionally played in Scotland. You play the bagpipes by blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.

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bagpipes

n.

1) to play the bagpipes

2) bagpipes wail

Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Scottish Great Highland bagpipes are the best known examples in the Anglophone world, 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipes

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Bagpipes

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".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipes

Examples of use of BAGPIPES

1. Throughout the day, politicians laid wreaths and bagpipes wailed mournfully.

2. Palestinian scouts marched through the streets, some wearing kilts and berets, playing drums and bagpipes.

3. A man wearing a kilt played the bagpipes as the crowd arrived.

4. A military marching band played on bagpipes topped with Iraqi flags.

5. With the echo of bagpipes and the firefighters in dress uniform, the services for him at St.