About The Word Bagpipe
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Bagpipe
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What's The Definition Of Bagpipe?
[n] a wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through pipes
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bagpipe: pipes Related Terms | Find terms related to Bagpipe: See Also | bourdon | chanter | drone | drone pipe | melody pipe | musette | shepherd's pipe | wind | wind instrument Bagpipe In Webster's Dictionary \Bag"pipe\, n.
A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands
of Scotland.
Note: It consists of a leather bag, which receives the air by
a tube that is stopped by a valve; and three sounding
pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer.
Two of these pipes produce fixed tones, namely, the
bass, or key tone, and its fifth, and form together
what is called the drone; the third, or chanter, gives
the melody.
\Bag"pipe\, v. t. To make to look like a bagpipe. {To bagpipe the mizzen} (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. --Totten. |
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