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Page 24 of 30 illustrating the pipes heard on Bagpipes of the World |
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Serbia
one cylindrical bore drone with gourd resonator, single-blade reed
This most interesting bagpipe has several unusual features. Most obvious is the use of a good-size gourd as a resonator on the end of the drone. Hidden from immediate view is the chanter configuration - while at a glance it looks like an ordinary single chanter, it in fact houses two bores and two reeds. There's the obvious bore, with its multiple fingerholes and then there's a nearly hidden secondary bore within the same structure, with its own reed and a single fingerhole. The only real visual clue to the nature of the pipe is the final two-part opening of the bell.
| The scales and key signatures given may be regarded as approximations; bagpipes may deviate from conventional standards in absolute and relative pitch. |
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The Serbian Gajdy (pronounced guy-dee) being played by Sean Folsom. |
| The chanter ends in a typical horn-shaped bell, but in this instance it's carved of wood rather than made of the more often seen cow horn. |  |
The bell section has been rotated for the photograph. |
| Detail showing the gourd resonater at the end of the drone. |  |
This is not a common feature among bagpipes, which is somewhat odd because several other pipes do use enlarged hollow drone terminations - among them the Scottish Highland pipe and the Spanish Gaita. |
| The tricky two-reed configuration of the chanters, along with the more conventional drone reed. |  |
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