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What is the technical term for the sound of bagpipes

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Sep 23, 2009
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starstarstarstarstar 		The word Skirl in bagpipes
by: Anonymous

In piping we always used to, and many still do, refer to a "skirl" as a misfingering of the chanter to produce an unwanted shrill, squealling sound - a skirl.
That term of the sound of the pipes is now a rather archaic term.

Bill Robertson

Sep 23, 2009
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by: Brent

I've freqently heard of 'the skirling of the pipes', and the Robert Burns poem, Tam O'Shanter has the following line:
"He screw’d the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl."

I think skirl is the word, then.
Aug 07, 2009
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by: Anonymous

The sound cannot be described in one word.
I suggest: The sound is produced from the reservoir of air through the chanter and its double-bladed reed producing a penetrating sound and the melody with the fixed tuned harmony from the two tenor drones and bass drone. The sound is constant.

Bill Robertson

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