The difference between Scottish bagpipes and Irish bagpipes

The difference between Scottish bagpipes and Irish bagpipes is:

1, the gameplay is different.

Scottish bagpipes: They blow airbags with their mouths.

Irish bagpipes: Airbags are blown by elbow blowers. When playing, the player holds the flute tightly with both hands, just like playing a flute, and changes the notes by changing the air holes on the flute.

2. Different timbres

Scottish bagpipes: The sound is loud and inspiring, so it is widely used by Scottish military music and is suitable for rendering emotions.

Irish bagpipes: The sound is sad, not as high as Scottish bagpipes. Generally used for chamber music performance, better at lyricism.

Scottish bagpipes:

Irish bagpipes:

3. Different structures

Scottish bagpipes: The structure consists of pipes, bags, choirs and drones.

Irish bagpipes: structurally, one end of the leather bag of Irish elbow bagpipes is a big thick pipe, and five thin pipes are connected to the big thick pipe, and the other end of the leather bag is connected to a thin pipe, which has holes like flutes.

Baidu encyclopedia-Scottish bagpipes

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