- Smallpipe
Smallpipes can refer to one of two kinds of bagpipes:
* The
Northumbrian smallpipes
* TheScottish smallpipes See also
Border pipes , an instrument often confused with the Scottish smallpipes.
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Music of Northumbria — Here Northumbria is taken to mean Northumberland, the northernmost county of England, and County Durham. The region possesses a distinctive style of folk music with a strong and continuing tradition.[1] The region is particularly noted for its… … Wikipedia
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William Dixon (piper) — The William Dixon manuscript, written down between 1733 and 1738 in Northumberland, is the oldest known manuscript of pipe music from the British Isles, and the most important source of music for the Border Pipes. It is located in the A.K. Bell… … Wikipedia
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Scottish smallpipes — A set of Cocobolo Scottish Smallpipes with horn mountings, made in 2008 by Ebert Jones The Scottish smallpipe, in its modern form, is a bellows blown bagpipe developed by Colin Ross and others, to be playable according to the Great Highland… … Wikipedia
Border pipes — The border pipes are a musical instrument that is a close cousin of the Great Highland Bagpipe. It is commonly confused with the Scottish smallpipe, although it is a quite different and much older instrument. The name, which is modern, comes from … Wikipedia
Northumbrian smallpipes — The Northumbrian smallpipes (also known as the Northumbrian pipes) are bellows blown bagpipes from the North East of England. In a survey of the bagpipes in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, the organologist Anthony Baines wrote: It is… … Wikipedia
Scottish smallpipes — fabricadas en 2008 por Ebert Jones. La Scottish smallpipe, en su forma moderna es una gaita soplada a fuelle que se desarrolló a partir de la Northumbrian smallpipes para que fuese posible tocarla con la misma digitación de la Great Highland… … Wikipedia Español
Great Highland Bagpipe — The Great Highland Bagpipe (Gaelic : A Phìob Mhòr ) is probably the best known variety of bagpipe. Abbreviated GHB, and commonly referred to simply as the pipes , they have historically taken numerous forms in Scotland.A modern set has a bag, a… … Wikipedia
