List of bagpipes
Appearance
Europe
British Isles
- Great Highland Bagpipe : perhaps the most well-known bagpipe.
- Uilleann pipes : bellows-blown bagpipe with keyed chanter, from Ireland.
- Northumbrian smallpipe : a smallpipe with a closed end chanter played in a staccatto style.
- Border pipe : originally played on the Scottish-English border.
- Scottish smallpipe : a modern reinterpretation of an extinct instrument
- Cornemuse : French bagpipe featuring a bass drone and a tenor drone that emerges from a common stock with the chanter.
- Cornish pipes: formerly extinct double chanter bagpipe from Cornwall (southwest England), currently undergoing a revival.
- Lancashire Great-pipe: another formerly extinct English bagpipe currently undergoing a revival
- Pastoral bagpipe : ancestor of the Irish bagpipe, also played by the Scots and northeast English.
Eastern Europe
- Gaida (also the large kaba gaida from the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria): Southern Balkan (i.e. Bulgarian and Macedonian) and Greek bagpipe with one drone and one chanter
- Gajdy or gajde: the name for various bagpipes of Eastern Europe, found in Poland, Serbia, Slovakia.
- Dudy (also known by the German name "Bock") : Czech bellows-blown bagpipe with a long, crooked drone and chanter that curves up at the end. There are at least three Polish traditions, generically known as "dudy," and the region of Zakopanie on the border with Slovakia is the home of the best known tradition.
- Magyar Duda or Hungarian duda (also known as tömlösíp and börduda) has a double chanter (two parallel bores in a single stick of wood) with single reeds and a bass drone. It is typical of a large group of pipes played in the Carpathian Basin.
- Piva d'Istria, a double chantered, single drone bagpipe whose side by side chanters are cut from a single rectangular piece of wood. They are typically single reed instruments.
France
- Musette : French ancestor of the Northumbrian pipes, used in folk music as well as classical compositions in the 18th century French court. The shuttle design for the drones was recently revived and added to a mouth blown Scottish smallpipe.
Germany
- Dudelsack : German bagpipe with two drones and one chanter
Greece
- Tsampouna (also tsambouna, tsabouna, etc.) : Greek island bagpipe with a double chanter, no drone and a bag made from an entire goatskin.
Iberia (Spain and Portugal)
- Iberic gaitas: Gaita is a generic term for "bagpipe" in Spanish, Portuguese, Galego, and Asturian, for distinct bagpipes used in Galicia (Spain), Asturias (Spain), Sanabria (Spain), Catalonia (Spain), Minho (Portugal) and Trás-os-Montes (Portugal). Just like "Northumbrian smallpipes" or "Great Highland bagpipes," each country and region attributes its toponym to the respective gaita name: gaita Galega (Galicia, Spain), gaita Transmontana (Trás-os-Montes, Portugal), gaita Asturiana (Asturias, Spain), gaita Sanabresa (Sanabria, Spain), Sac de Gemecs (Catalunya), etc. Most of them have a conical chanter with a partial second octave, obtained by overblowing. Folk groups playing these instruments have become popular in recent years, and pipe bands for some models.
- Sac de gemecs : Used in Catalonia. In the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Minorca, (but not Ibiza), this same bagpipe is called a "Xeremie" and is played in a duet with a Flabiol (one handed) whistle and drum.
- Galician gaita a traditional bagpipe used in Galicia, and northern Portugal.
Italy
- Zampogna : A generic name for an Italian bagpipe, with different scale arrangements for two chanters (for different regions of Italy), and from one to three drones (single drone versions can sound a fifth, in relation to the chanter keynote).Other drones are tuned higher or lower than the chanters, and the drones, like the chanters, can be single or double reeded. The double reeded version of the Zampogna is generally played with the Piffero [called "biffera" in the Ciociaria] (a shawm, or folk oboe), which plays the melody and the Zampogna provides chord changes, "vamping" or rhythmic harmony figures or a bass line and a soprano harmony as an accompanyment. This double reed tradition would include the Ciociaria (Latium, southern Abruzzo and Molise), that of southern Basilicata (Pollino) and nearby areas of Calabria, and some areas of Sicily (Siracusa, Palermo). Single reed versions are played solo in the Calabrian tradition of the "surdullina"(Cosenza), and a version with a plugged chanter called the "surdullina Albanese," and the Sicilian "chiaramedda"or "chiaramella" (Messina). The chanters and drones vary, according to the tradition, from a few inches long (surdullina) to two meters in length, such as used in the cathedral of Monreale (Palermo) and nearly every size in between. The word "tzimpounas/tsimponas" still used for bagpipe in Pontic Greek and Turkish (Trebizond region of northeast Anatolia; its Romanian counterpart is "cimpoi", which also means symphony or "many sounds played together".
- Piva, used in northern Italy (Bergamo, Emilia). A single chantered, single drone instrument,with double reeds, often played in accompanyment to a shawm, or piffero.
- Launeddas of Sardinia. While not strictly a bagpipe in that it is played in the mouth by circular breathing, it is nonetheless a cousin and likely ancestor of the Italian zampogna, in that it has two chanters and a drone, all single reed. They vary, according to the tradition, from about a foot long to almost a meter in length.
Sweden
- Säckpipa : Also the Swedish word for 'bagpipe' in general, this instrument was on the brink of extinction in the first half of the 20th century. It has a cylindrical bore and a single reed, as well as a single drone at the same pitch as the bottom note of the chanter.
Switzerland
- Schweizer Sackpfeife (Swiss bagpipe): In Switzerland, the "Sackpfiffe" was a common instrument in the folkmusic from the middle-ages to the early 18th century – documented by iconography and in written sources (one or two drones and one chanter with double reeds).
Middle East and North Africa
- Dankiyo: An ancient word for bagpipe in Trebizond area in the text of Evliya Çelebi (17. century, Ottoman Era)"The Laz's of Trebizond invent bagpipe called dankiyo..." Etymology: < Ancient Greek To ankiyo, angion (άγγείον) "skin, bagpipe" Source: Öztürk, Özhan (2005). Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük. 2 Cilt. Heyamola Yayıncılık. İstanbul. p. 300 ISBN 975-6121-00-9.
- Tulum : skin bag; Turkish bagpipe featuring two parallel chanters, (and no drone) usually played by the Laz and Hamsheni people.
- Mezoued (miscalled "Zukra"): North African pipes