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The modern _Lowland bag-pipe_ differs from the Highland bag-pipe mainly in that it is blown by bellows instead of by the mouth.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Imagine the sounds of a practicing bag-pipe there! bfwpdx
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Class I. comprises: (a) the Highland bag-pipe; (b) the old Irish bag-pipe;
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The _Calabrian bag-pipe_ has a bag of goatskin with the hair left on, and is inflated by means of a blow-pipe.
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A Highland bag-pipe of the 15th century, dated MCCCCIX., in the possession of Messrs J. & R. Glen of Edinburgh, was exhibited at the R.yal Military
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The most trustworthy evidence we have of the medieval bag-pipe is the fine
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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That the bag-pipe was introduced by the Romans into the British Isles is a conclusion supported by the discovery in the foundations of the praetorian camp at Richborough of a small bronze figure of a Roman soldier playing the tibia utricularis.
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Among the names of musical instruments in Daniel iii. 5 and 15, the sixth, generally but wrongly rendered "dulcimer," is thought by many scholars to signify a kind of bag-pipe (see commentaries on _Daniel_ and the theological encyc.).
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For this dance the Devil played a bag-pipe made of a hen's skull and cats 'tails.
The Book of Hallowe'en Ruth Edna Kelley
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Praetorius mentions in addition the French bag-pipe (_musette_), similar in pitch to the hümmelchen, but inflated by means of the bellows.
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