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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
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1the Egyptian Arghool, or the primitive "squeaker" which children make from pieces of straw.
3The prominent feature in all bagpipe music consists in the employment of ornamental or grace notes, termed by Scotch pipers "warblers." Such fiorituri are very commonly made use of, and a skilful piper will manage to introduce a "warbler" of eleven notes between the last up beat and the first down beat of a bar. The usual "warbler," however, consists but of five or six notes. The highest form of bagpipe music is the Piobaireachd, or, as it is more usually called, Pibroch. This is usually difficult of execution, and consists of an air or theme called urlar, which is made the subject of variations, three or four in number, and increasing in difficulty and pace. The air is occasionally repeated, and ultimately ends the piece. And the pibroch has been recently adapted as a form for orchestral composition by Dr. A. C. Mackenzie, whose well-known and beautiful pibroch has been frequently performed within the last few years. The martial character and inspiriting nature of the pipes as an instrument of military music is so well known and so fully recognised that further comment is unnecessary.
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7Highland Bagpipe. 15th century. This curious and interesting bagpipe consists of two drones and chanter finely ornamented with Celtic patterns carved in circular bands. The drones are inserted in a single stock, formed apparently from a forked branch, the fork giving the proper spread for the shoulder. Carved on the stock are the letters R. McD.; under them is a representation of a galley, and in Roman numerals the date M:CCCC:IX. The letters, both of the initials and date, are of the Gothic type in use during the 15th century. On the reverse side of the stock is a triplet of foliated scroll work. There are round the ends of the forks bands of interlaced work. The lower part of one of the drones has a somewhat similar band in the centre; the corresponding piece of the other drone is not original. The head-pieces of the drones have each two bands of interlaced work, and they terminate in cup-shaped heads ornamented in the same manner. The
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