Bagpipes

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Bagpipe

Bagpipers from Asturias
Woodwind instrument
Classification	Aerophone Wind Woodwind
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	422.112 (Reed aerophone with conical bore)
Related instruments
Oboe Shawm Bassoon
Musicians
List of bagpipers

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, around the Persian Gulf and northern parts of South Asia.

The term bagpipe is equally correct in the singular or the plural, though pipers usually refer to the bagpipes as "the pipes", "a set of pipes" or "a stand of pipes".^[1][2]