The great bagpipe of the Highlands is inspiriting in war, and was first used in battle in the early part of the fifteenth century.
A curious old gem has been preserved, bearing the device of Apollo carrying a lyre in his arms and a bagpipeslung across his back, which takes that instrument right back to the days of ancient Greece.
The Irish bagpipe is a much more complete instrument than the Scotch, although it is steadily dying out.
A peculiar bagpipe is used in Sardinia, called the 'Lanedda,' in which the unfortunate player is obliged to make use of three mouthpieces at the same time.
A celebrated Italian story-teller of the thirteenth century mentions that in his time the bagpipe was quite a fashionable instrument.
The Bagpipe in its varying forms may be described as a portable organ, whether blown by the mouth of the performer or by a pair of bellows.
It is usually supposed that the bagpipe was brought from the East by the Crusaders; it was reckoned as a court instrument in the time of Edward the Second.
I don't see any good in going with a bagpipe from fair to fair to amuse drunkards.
Well, if it isn't a guitar, then it's a bagpipe or something.
Between the two of them, after much twisting and turning, pushing and pulling, the bagpipe was pulled through.
The winner of the bagpipe contest followed suit and then the Broad Jump champion, the winner of the Mile Run and the Hurdle Races joined in.
How I'd like to awaken Mrs. Cupp some drizzly dark morning with bagpipe music!
She remembered it now, the faint far away sound of a bagpipe playing.
There, stuffed between fence and concrete floor, was a bagpipealmost as big as the child himself.
Lowland bagpipe commonly had the bag or sack covered with woollen cloth of a green colour, a practice which, he adds, prevailed in the northern counties of England.
He had a bagpipe which he had bought from one of the Highland soldiers who are sometimes in Guernsey, and on which he played occasionally at twilight, on the rocks by the seashore.
A window was open, through which his bagpipe might have been seen hanging to a nail upon the wall.
The bagpipe blew, and they out threw Out of the towns untald: Lord!
Willie, when the heart is ill assay'd, How can bagpipeor joints be well apaid?
Thus the Irish bagpipe furnished the musical form known as "pedal point" or "drone bass.
The bagpipe has lived in war in its majestic power and splendour, and in peace it should not be allowed to die.
Any one who has a knowledge of the Highland bagpipe and its music knows that piping at the rate of 120 paces to the minute is not pipe music at all.
The great Highland bagpipe is the hallmark of a race whose achievements are second to none in the world.
But when we come to the question of the introduction of the bagpipe into the British Isles, and especially into Scotland, we are at once on highly controversial ground.
We do know that the harper and the bard were national institutions of immense antiquity in the Highlands, and that, as the bagpipe became an increasingly important feature of everyday life, they were bitterly opposed to it.
The association of thebagpipe with military operations is probably very ancient in Scotland.
To hear an oboe actually played as a rustic instrument one must go to Brittany, where it accompanies the national bagpipe or 'biniou.
You hear theBagpipe now--surely--"The Campbells are coming.
And let the russet swains the plough And harrow hang up resting now; And to the bagpipe all address Till sleep takes place of weariness.
At the earliest dawn of day, the tones of the bagpipe may be distinguished in the distance, coming up the principal street of the village.
And thebagpipe plays, and all the world dance, and every one is happy, and the evening breeze shaking the large chaplets above showers of lilac and hawthorn bloom fall on the dancers and rustic ballroom beneath.
The solace which the bagpipe can give, they have long enjoyed; but among other changes, which the last Revolution introduced, the use of the bagpipe begins to be forgotten.
Defn: A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.
Defn: A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants.
A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.
Defn: A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.
The songs of the drinkers blended with the music of the bagpipe and tambourine.
The orchestra consisted of a bagpipe and tambourine, but that was quite enough for their purpose.
The primitive simple bagpipe is blended with the flute, the oboe, and some tones of the organ and of the bassoon: altogether it forms a strange but pretty complete concert.
His bagpipe was very splendidly adorned, the pipes were of ebony ornamented with silver, the riband embroidered, and the bag covered with flame-coloured silk fringed with silver.
A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle" (Jamieson).
A very clever etching of a winged and laurelled Death playing on the bagpipe and making his appearance to an old couple at table.
Death enters, fantastically crowned with flowers and an hour-glass, and with a bagpipe in his left hand.
A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.
A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.
