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MUSIC 11

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Summary: Uilleann pipes

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Unlike the Scottish bagpipes which were popular in Ulster the uillean pipes were played not by blowing through a chanter, but by squeezing the bag placed between the piper’s side and his left arm.

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Picture of a piper at the Spanish Arch in Galway, by P. Chevenix Trench. Published 1840

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