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normally plural, singular bagpipe
A musical wind instrument of Celtic origin, possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds. quotations examples
“Iʼll tell you something: there is nothing in the world like the sound of the bagpipes to raise a manʼs morale, to lift his spirits, and give him strength.”
2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 250