Bagpipe: alternatives and connections

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

Scotland; esp. the Highlands of Scotland.

(of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments

An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.

An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a v…

An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.

One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the pres…

A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrum…

The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.

Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they pr…

A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gael…

The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in pl…

A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a…

A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys whi…

A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.

breed of hardy black chiefly beef cattle native to Scotland

A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands.