List of bagpipes

Northern Europe

Ireland

Great Britain

Kathryn Tickell playing a "16 keyed" Northumbrian smallpipe.

Finland

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Sweden

Traditional Swedish bagpipes, säckpipa, made by Leif Eriksson

Sápmi (Lapland)

Southern Europe

Spain and Portugal

Gaita is a generic term for "bagpipe" in Castilian (Spanish), Portuguese, Basque, Asturian-Leonese, Galician, Catalan and Aragonese, for distinct bagpipes used across the northern regions of Spain and Portugal and in the Balearic Islands. In the south of Spain and Portugal, the term is applied to a number of other woodwind instruments. Just like the term "Northumbrian smallpipes" or "Great Highland bagpipes", each region attributes its toponym to the respective gaita name. 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 have been formed in some traditions.

A piper with his gaita sanabresa
Old handmade Gaita Coimbrã. 1930, Armando Leça.

Italy

Malta

Greece

The ancient name of bagpipes in Greece is Askavlos, literary meaning bagpipe (Askos Ασκός is the bag, Avlos Αυλός is the pipe)

All bags for these types a bagpipes are made usually from the entire skin of a goat or sheep. The use of donkeyskin has also been reported in the past..

Central and Eastern Europe

A Serbian bagpiper

Poland

Dudy wielkopolskie (man) and Kozioł czarny (woman)

The Balkans

Belarus

Russia

Finno-Ugric Russia

Ukraine

Western Europe

France

The boha of Gascony

Germany

The Low Countries

Switzerland

Austria

Southwest Asia

Turkey

Pontic bagpipe/dankiyo/tulum consist of: 1. Post - Skin (bag): Animal Skin, 2. Fisaktir - blowpipe: Wood or Bone, 3. Avlos - flute: Wood & Reeds, 4 . Kalame - Reeds: Reeds

Armenia

The Caucasus

Iran

Arab states of the Persian Gulf

North Africa

Egypt

Libya

Tunisia

Algeria

South Asia

India

References

  1. Woodhouse, Harry (1994). Cornish Bagpipes: Fact or Fiction?. Trewirgie: Dyllansow Truran. ISBN 1-85022-070-0.
  2. "gaida (bagpipe) in Greece : γκάιντα στην Ελλάδα : gaida (Dudelsack) in Griecheland : gaida Yunanistan'da". www.gaida.gr. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  3. Dudy grają
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