pabrizzer
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The playing of the Bagpipe was banned in Scotland after the uprising of 1745. They were classified as an instrument of war by the loyalist government. They were kept alive in secret.
Can you imagine trying to practice the bagpipes in secret?
When you start to learn the bagpipes they give you a small instrument called the chanter so you can practice the fingering of the tunes, and I suppose this is how they practised in secret
There are various Iberian Bagpipes - the most famous being the Galician Pipes (normally a single drone and tuned in "C" almost as loud as the Highland). And my favourite name for bagpipes - the Catalan "Sac de Gemecs" (Literally the Bag of Groans). These have three drones which hang over your forearm and are usually tuned either in C or G and are also monstrously loud)