page3 2009-01-09T00:06:32.666-05:00 What_Countries_have_Bagpipes_ 2009-01-09T00:06:32.666-05:00 Bagpipes can be found in many places around the world. Here is a list of countries that have one or more different types of bagipes.<br /><span style="font-size:13px; "><br /></span><ul class="square"><li>Austria</li><li>Balkan</li><li>Belgium</li><li>France</li><li>Germany</li><li>Greece</li><li>Hungarian</li><li>Iran</li><li>Ireland</li><li>Italy</li><li>Kuwait</li><li>Malta</li><li>North Africa</li><li>Poland</li><li>Portugal </li><li>Romania</li><li>Russia</li><li>Scandinavia and the Baltic</li><li>Spain</li><li>Switzerland</li><li>The Caucasus</li><li>The Netherlands </li><li>Turkey</li><li>Ukraine.</li><li>United Kingdom</li></ul> How_old_are_the_bagpipes_ 2009-01-09T00:00:33.990-05:00 Evidence of pre-medieval bagpipes is controversial, but several textual and visual clues may possibly indicate ancient forms of bagpipes. A Hittite slab dating from about 1,300 BC at Eyuk depicts a possible representation of a bagpipe.<br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="bagpipe-jew.JPG" src="http://www.bagpipers.com/bagpipes/files/bagpipe-jew.jpg.jpg" width="189" height="268"/><img class="imageStyle" alt="BAGPIPER - 1083482" src="http://www.bagpipers.com/bagpipes/files/bagpiper---1083482.jpg" width="262" height="268"/> Are_Bagpipes_Irish_or_Scottish_ 2009-01-08T23:48:07.246-05:00 Though the <strong>Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe</strong> and<strong> Irish uilleann pipes</strong> have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have historically been found throughout Europe, and into Northern Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Caucasus.<br /><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bagpiper From Ebay" src="http://www.bagpipers.com/bagpipes/files/bagpiper-from-ebay.jpg" width="265" height="390"/> What_are_Bagpipes_ 2009-01-08T23:46:57.204-05:00 <strong>Bagpipes</strong> are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. <br /><br />An <strong>aerophone</strong> is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.<br /><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bagpiper Network Join" src="http://www.bagpipers.com/bagpipes/files/bagpiper-network-join.jpg" width="663" height="83"/> Drone 2009-01-08T23:45:38.789-05:00 Most bagpipes have at least one drone. A drone is most commonly a cylindrical tube with a single reed, although drones with double reeds exist. The drone is generally designed in two or more parts, with a sliding joint ("bridle") so that the pitch of the drone can be manipulated.<br /><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Drone Horizontal" src="http://www.bagpipers.com/bagpipes/files/drone-horizontal.jpg" width="551" height="68"/> Chanter 2009-01-08T23:44:58.939-05:00 The chanter is the melody pipe, played by one or two hands. A chanter can be bored internally so that the inside walls are parallel for its full length, or it can be bored in the shape of a cone. Additionally, the reed can be a single or a double reed. Single-reeded chanters must be parallel-bored; however, both conical- and parallel-bored chanters operate with double reeds, and double reeds are by far the more common.<br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="chanter" src="http://www.bagpipers.com/bagpipes/files/chanter.jpg" width="71" height="391"/> Pipe_Bag 2009-01-08T23:40:42.974-05:00 The <strong>bag</strong> is an airtight reservoir which can hold air and regulate its flow while the player breathes or pumps with a bellows, enabling the player to maintain continuous sound for some time. <br /><br />Manmade materials such as Gore-Tex are used for constructing bags but before this luxury bags were made from local animal hides for bags. <br /><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="bagpipe1624" src="http://www.bagpipers.com/bagpipes/files/bagpipe1624.jpg" width="120" height="147"/> Air_Supply 2009-01-08T23:34:49.598-05:00 The most common method of supplying air to the bag is by blowing into a blowpipe, or blowstick.<br /><br />The use of a bellows to supply air appears to have originated sometime during 16th or 17th centuries . Several types of bagpipes use bellows, with the Irish uilleann pipes, Northumbrian smallpipes from Britain, and the Musette de cour in France are the most well known. What_makes_a_bagpipe_a_bagpipe_ 2009-01-08T23:28:05.906-05:00 A bagpipe minimally consists of an air supply, a bag, a chanter, and usually a drone. <br /><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="bagpipe" src="http://www.bagpipers.com/bagpipes/files/bagpipe.jpg" width="235" height="235"/><br /><br />Most bagpipes also have additional drones (and sometimes chanters) in various combinations, held in place in stocks&mdash;connectors with which the various pipes are attached to the bag.