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  • n  a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone

  • As the popemobile descended the ramp, the sound of bagpipes from above mixed with the sorrowful tune of a single cello player below.
  • There's an alien invasion-- style Mellotron solo on the title track and what one hopes is a humorous attempt to reintroduce the bagpipe as a legitimate rock instrument on Prickly .
  • But chiefly they piped the bagpipes, vying for 21 prizes.
Quotes

  • Scott Hamilton in USA Today
    Everything was gone, gone, gone, gone,said Hamilton, his steely blue eyes opening wide. "I could stand up on (skates), but I had no strength or muscle tone. Basically I was turning into a bagpipe."
  • Mike Babcock in Ottawa Citizen
    Every summer when I'm at the lake, there's a young kid who bagpipes around the lake with his grandfather once a summer or twice a summer,Babcock said. "And I always said that if I won the Cup, I'd get Jeff to bagpipe the Cup around, and...
  • Gordon Brown in Daily Mail
    These things happen in byelections,Mr Brown told a radio phone-in. "When I was fighting my own constituency campaign before, I had someone in a kilt playing a bagpipe following me everywhere because they wanted to emphasise the fact that I...

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