The Yorkshire bagpipe is a type of bagpipe once native to the county of Yorkshire in northern England. The instrument is currently extinct, but sources...
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List of bagpipes (redirect from Types of bagpipe)
known as Union pipes and Irish pipes, depending on era. Bellows-blown bagpipe with keyed or un-keyed 2-octave chanter, 3 drones and 3 regulators. The...
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occasionally danced with blackened or coloured faces. Long Sword dance from Yorkshire and southern County Durham, danced with long, rigid metal or wooden swords...
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accompanied by bagpipes, with styles including the Lancashire bagpipe, Yorkshire bagpipe and Northumbrian smallpipes. These disappeared in the early nineteenth...
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churches. Yorkshire: The Yorkshire bagpipes are attested in literature, but are currently extinct. Worcestershire: The Worcestershire bagpipe has likewise...
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Pibroch (category Bagpiping)
piobaireachd has for some four centuries been music of the great Highland bagpipe. A more general term is Scottish Gaelic: ceòl mòr (in reformed spelling...
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Launceston bagpipe has a conical bore chanter, which would give a loud, full tone often associated with outdoor performance. The bagpipe at Altarnun...
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Infantry Training Centre (British Army) (category Education in North Yorkshire)
Company (discharged soldiers) Gym Army School of Ceremonial Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming Quartermaster's (QMs) Department G7 Training...
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Burton Agnes Hall (category Grade I listed buildings in the East Riding of Yorkshire)
in the village of Burton Agnes, near Driffield in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was built by Sir Henry Griffith in 1601–10 to designs attributed...
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English folk music (section Yorkshire)
galliards. For other social orders, instruments like the pipe, tabor, bagpipe, shawm, hurdy-gurdy, and crumhorn accompanied traditional music and community...
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Music of Northumbria (section Bagpipe music)
Northumbrian 'war pipe', which may have been the ancestor of the Great Highland Bagpipe, but no example has survived. It appears to have been replaced in the region...
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4472 Flying Scotsman pulled the first train to stop at the station with a bagpipe rendition of 'Scotland the Brave' signalling its arrival. The remainder...
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"epic", concluding, "With another bravura [Andy] McCluskey lead and a mock-bagpipe lead that's easily more entrancing than the real thing, it's a wrenching...
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revivalists such as Paul Ladmirault. Celticism came to be associated with the bagpipe and the harp. The harp is considered to be the national instrument of Wales...
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violin as well as the hurdy-gurdy. After World War II, the Great Highland bagpipe (and binioù bras) became commonplace in Brittany through the bagadoù (Breton...
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with the "Reveille". The playing of God Save the King, followed by the bagpipe lament "Sleep, Dearie, Sleep", marked the end of the ceremony. The Queen's...
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Northumbrian smallpipe, a sweet chamber instrument, quite unlike the Scottish bagpipe. Northumberland also has its own tartan or check, sometimes referred to...
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British Army". 21 September 2023. "Meet the new recruits from Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming". Forces Network. 10 March 2023. Retrieved...
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Training Centre Support Battalion Army School of Ceremonial Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming, at Redford Barracks, Edinburgh 400 Troop,...
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June – Alex Welsh, jazz musician, 52 29 June – Pipe Major Donald MacLeod, bagpipe musician and composer, 65 4 July – Maurice Blower, composer, 88 29 September...
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turnaround to come back down close to the cityfront. A 21-gun salute and bagpipe band honored the ship. From Halifax, the ship sailed to Boston and was...
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Northern Meeting Park and Wasp Studios. Inverness is an important centre for bagpipe players and lovers, since every September the city hosts the Northern Meeting...
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US alone, and dozens more in Canada. They are closely intertwined with bagpipe band competitions (which date to 1781), a lasting source of tartan imagery...
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with taunts by the British ambassador, Andrew Gilchrist, as he played bagpipe music and military marches on his gramophone. Many incidents followed....
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was deeply influenced by Louis MacNeice and he included a poem called 'Bagpipe Music'. What it owes to the original is its rhythmic verve. With his love...
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Ratcliffe, Roger (30 March 2014). "How I saved Settle-Carlisle line". The Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January...
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Bass drum Border pipes Cello Clàrsach (Harp) Fiddle Flute Great Highland bagpipe Low whistle Melodeon Piano Scottish smallpipes Side drum Tenor drum Tin...
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bagpipes have long been a national symbol of Scotland, and the Great Highland Bagpipe is widely recognised. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, are ballads...
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Elite/Elate Poems: Selected Poems 1971-75 (Jargon Society, 1979). The Magpie's Bagpipe: Selected Essays (North Point Press, 1982). Blues & Roots/Rue & Bluets:...
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and a flute, known as the Malham Pipe, made from sheep's bone in West Yorkshire dating to the Iron Age. (A revised dating of the Malham Pipe now places...
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