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Historical bagpipes: Sutky [Handcraft of Bagpipes of Piper]

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Is a mouthblown three-voice bagpipe, with a commonplace chanter with two bores. The right one hucik. Has one fingerhole ( kontra. It plays lower fourth when covered (with right hand's ring finger), and the tonic when open. Abeceda. The melody pipe on the left side has 5 fingerholes in front and a thumbhole on the rear. It plays the tonic when all the holes are covered. There is a special tuning hole at the side of the chanter, for setting this bottom note in tune. The Hucik.

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Slovak Bagpipes: Nitra [Handcraft of Bagpipes of Piper]

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In the rural country around the city of Nitra, three- and four-voice bagpipes were widely used untill the end of World War II. In the three-voice variety, the chanter gajdica. Has two bores. The right one hucik. Has one fingerhole ( kontra. It plays low fourth when covered (with right hand's ring finger), and the tonic when open. Abeceda. Is usualy placed in an angled stock, carved in a shape of a goat's head ( kozicka. Rarely in a shape of human or devil's head, or in a simple stock ( klatka. Goathead c...

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Slovak Bagpipes: Kysuce [Handcraft of Bagpipes of Piper]

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The single chanter gajdica. Has 6 fingerholes, all on the front side. Covering all of them, we get the low fourth. When we open the lowest one, the tonic sounds. Continuing upwards, we get a part of major scale, ending with the 6th. The fingering is closed, only one hole is opened for each of the tones. The drone huk. Give a piper the possibility of singing while playing (or vice versa), and also secure the tuning stability. As the best pitch, c. 500 to 1000 euro. According to materials and style.

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Drcek [Handcraft of Music Instruments of Piper]

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The clarinet gained, shortly after its introduction into military bands, a great popularity also among the village musicians. Not many of them could afford an expensive instrument of professional make. Simplified imitations started to be made soon. Western Slovakia's drcek. With a simple keyless body of elder wood, rough mouthpiece with a hazelwood reed tied by wire, is a typical example. Wood: cherry, plum, pear, appletree, walnut, apricot, almond, maple, hornbeam. 80 euro, with horn 100.

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Songs for Bagpipes [Pages of Slovak Piper]

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Slovak songs for Bagpipes. Slovak folk songs are nice, but I like to play them more than write notes. but I will try to add some more songs soon. How sounds bagpipes of my production with other instruments:.

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Shawms [Handcraft of Music Instruments of Piper]

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Shawms G, D, d. Shawm, in slovak language salmaj (f. or m.). The double reed made of cane, can be placed between the lips, like that of oboe or bassoon, or hidden in a wooden windcap. Windcapped shawms were called rauschpfeiffe. Rauschpfeiffe in german environment. They are technicaly easier to play, and the reed lasts longer. Those with naked reed allow for more expression, control of the pitch and timbre. I make wincapped shawms mainly, in two systems: f. F or g 80 euro. C or d 100 euro. F or g 130 euro.

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Historical bagpipes: Mulitanky [Handcraft of Bagpipes of Piper]

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Mulitanky with bellows blown. Smallpipes with a single chanter and three drones without bells. Towards the end of renaissance period they were spread over a large area, from the Low countries, Germany, Bohemia to Hungaria including Slovakia. In some of the places they were in use untill the half of 19th century. We can see them in many depictions and literary sources, as for example the book De syntagma musicum. Of Michael Praetorius, who calls them dudey. Jak sa kolem svarni vesela pastiri a ze vsech.

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Slovak Bagpipes: Juh [Handcraft of Bagpipes of Piper]

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Bagpipes - Southern Slovakia. In the areas of hungarian and mixed hungarian-slovak settlement, three-voice bagpipes of the hungarian type were used. The diferrence between these and the pipes from Podpolanie is represented by a small hole at the top of the melody pipe. It is called a flea-hole. And is used to vibrate tones and to play chromatic semitones. When open, it raises the pitch of any tone fingered a half tone. A chanter with the fleahole. Glued up with dough or resin. Woods pear, plum 800 euro.

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Bagpipes: Special Bagpipes [Handcraft of Bagpipes of Piper]

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Web page of Special Bagpipes is in progress.