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Border pipes (plurale tantum)

Bagpipe, bellows-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: 4 drones in 1 stock)

Identical types: 7

Northumberland; In Sachs and Marcuse called Border pipe, and by the latter erroneously interpreted as "a name of the Northumbrian small-pipe [sic]"; NB¹ (plurale tantum): The term is also used when referring to 1 instrument only; NB²: = (Scottish) Lowland pipes; NB³: ➺ Northumbrian pipes.

All pipes stopped; Maximum 3 drones are used simultaneously.

Northumbrian big pipes (big-pipes)

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Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile].

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.90 (type only, no term).

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.370, 374.

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975.

Robert, Christian: L’histoire singulière de la musette Béchonnet et de sa progéniture contemporaine européenne = La storia singolare della cornamusa Béchonnet e della sua influenza sull’evoluzione recente di alcune cornamuse europee = The remarkable history of the Musette Béchonnet and its modern descendants in Europe. In: Utriculus XII (45), gennaio/marzo 2008, p.13 (Borderpipe).

Web

northumbrianpipers.org (Border, Half-long, and Big pipes as synonyms, and = Lowland pipes)