The Great Highland Bagpipe

The Great Highland bagpipe currently tunes around 470 to 480 hertz.

The Great Highland bagpipe is a woodwind instrument native to Scotland.

Bagpipes of any kind are first attested in Scotland around 1400.

The Great Highland bagpipe actually contains four separate reeds inside.

All four reeds stay completely closed inside the wooden stocks.

The chanter scale uses exactly nine notes in Mixolydian mode.

Pipers can't stop blowing—grace notes separate sounds. No rests allowed.

Solo virtuosic piping is called pibroch, or ceòl mòr.

One notable solo position is Piper to the Sovereign since Queen Victoria.

Wings featured the Campbeltown Pipe Band on Mull of Kintyre.

Today the Great Highland bagpipe is played in countries around the world.