bagpipes

• bagpipe

From earlier bagpipe, from Middle English bagpipe; equivalent to bag +‎ pipes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæɡ.pɑɪps/

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bagpipes pl (normally plural, singular bagpipe)

1. A musical wind instrument possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.

   Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire.

   • 2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 250:

     “Iʼll tell you something: there is nothing in the world like the sound of the bagpipes to raise a manʼs morale, to lift his spirits, and give him strength.”

• (musical wind instrument): bagpipe, pipes; the pipes (usually Scottish)

• (musical wind instrument): mouthpiece, neck, chanter, chanter reed, chanter reed protector, bass drone, tenor drone

• 1999. The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. Fintan Vallely. Pg. 14.

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