bagpipe

[Eng. bag; pipe. So called because the wind is received in a bag.] musical instrument which has existed in various parts of the world from an unknown period of antiquity, but is now a ociated in the minds of the English chiefly with the Highlands of Scotland. Though le known in Ireland, it is still in use there also. It consists of a large wind-bag made of greased leather covered with woollen cloth, a valved mouth-tube, by which the player inflates it with his breath, three reed drones, and a reed chanter, with finger-holes on which the tunes are performed. The drones are for the ba , and the chanter, which plays the melody, for the tenor or treble. The compa of the bagpipe is three octaves. "And then the bagpipes he could blow." Words worth: Blind Highland Boy. If we may judge from the following pa age of Shakespeare, the nationality of this instrument was not so limited in his time as it is now. IMG:content-0999.jpg:[blocks in formation] to be made into bags. ( Webster.) 4. A method of reaping grain by the hook, by a striking instead of a drawing cut.