 Glossary of bagpipe terms

This article defines a number of terms that are exclusive, or whose meaning is exclusive, to piping and pipers.Arm Strap 
Argyllshire Gathering
Attack

Back D
Backstitching
Bag Seasoning
Bag Cover
Barking/Popping
Tuning Bead
Biniaouer
Binioù
Binioù-Bras
Binioù-Ilin
Binioù-Kozh
Birl
Blade
Blowpipe
Bombarde
Bottom D
Bridle
Brien Boru Pipes

Canntaireachd
Ceòl Beag
Chanter
Cimpoi
Closed Bore
Closed Fingering
College of Piping
Combing and Beading
Cords
Cran
Crow
Crunluath
Crunluath a Mach
Cut

Dirk
Dithis
Double Chanter
Double Gold Medal
Double Tone
Doubling
Drone
Drone Switch
Drum Major

Embellishments
False Notes
False Fingering

Ferrule
Flap Valve
Flea Hole
Fontennelle
Free Hand Chords

GDE Gracenotes
Grace note 
Grades
Grip
Ground
Goose
Gooseneck bag

Half Sized Pipes
High Hand
Hornpipe

Imitation Ivory

Jig

Joints

Korn-boud

Lañchenn
Lapping
Leumluath

Low Hand
Lowland Bagpipe

MacCrimmons
Mace
March
Massed Bands
Military Tattoo
Mounts
MSR

Neck

Nicol Brown Competition

Northern Meeting

Off the knee
On the knee
Open Fingering
Overblow

Pib-Ilin
Pib-Veur
Pibroch
Piob
Piob-Mhor
Piobaire
Piobaireachd
Piobaireachd G

Piper's Apron
Piping Times
Poch-binioù
Popping
Popping Strap
Projecting Mounts

Quick Step

Redundant A
Reel Pipes
Regulators
Retreat
Roll
Rush

Sac'h
Scraper
Seasoning
Second Octave
Seconds
Shooting Board
Single Reed
Skirl
Sliding
Soner
Staple
Stop Key
Strike
Stouv-toul
Striking in
Siubhal
Sutell

Tachum
Taorluath
Te(a)od
Tenon
Tempradura
Throat
Throw on D
Tight Fingering
Tipping
Tongue
Transmontana
Tuning Pins

Undercut
Union
Unison
Urlar

Valves

Vent Holes
(The) Voice

Water Trap

Zampogna


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