Bagpipes Synonyms

Scottish bagpipeS The highland pipes are the best known of several types of Scottish bagpipe, and are very loud and powerful instruments.

Another interesting feature it shares with other East European bagpipes is the single reed chanter.

For the first few weeks of learning music he dabbled with playing mouth organ, bagpipes and concertina, before learning button accordion.

He blew into the bagpipes and made an ear-splitting tuneless racket.

In this way, although the ancient ballads are not forgotten, new words are also fitted to the plaintive folk-tunes (fados) which every farm-hand knows and sings, accompanied sometimes by a rude clarinet or bagpipes, but more frequently by the so-called Portuguese guitar - an instrument which resembles a mandolin rather than the guitars of Italy and Spain.