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557a Speaking in Irish; On the Wind; Irish Craic

Travel with Rick Steves

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Can You Play a Scottish Bagpipe Without the Strident Os?

The scottish bagpipe has a range of only nine notes. The illen pipes are relatively chromatic, i mean reluctantly chromatic over two octaves. You've got grace notes, you've got staccato, tremolo, vibrato. It's claimed to have a sound closer to that of the human voice than almost any other.

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