#Scottish bagpipe player festival full
The chanter has a range of two full octaves, including sharps and flats (because, unlike most bagpipe chanters, it can be overblown to produce the higher octave ).
The chanter is played with the fingers like a flute. The air goes from the bag to the chanter, drones, and regulators. The bag which the bellows fill is clamped under the other elbow, which squeezes the bag to control the flow of air to the reeds (which make the notes). Some pipers can converse or sing while playing. The bellows not only relieve the player from the effort needed to blow into a bag to maintain pressure, they also allow relatively dry air to power the reeds, reducing the adverse effects of moisture on tuning and longevity. The bag of the uilleann pipes is inflated by means of a small set of bellows strapped around the waist and the right arm (in the case of a right-handed player in the case of a left-handed player the location and orientation of all components are reversed). People mistook the term 'union' to refer to the 1800 Act of Union this is incorrect as Breandán Breathnach points out that a poem published in 1796 uses the term 'union'. It was an invention of Grattan Flood and the name stuck. There is no historical record of the name or use of the term uilleann pipes before the 20th century.
Earlier known in English as "union pipes", their current name is a partial translation of the Irish language terms píobaí uilleann (literally, "pipes of the elbow"), from their method of inflation. The uilleann pipes ( / ˈ ɪ l ə n/ ( listen) IL-ən or / ˈ ɪ l j ə n/ IL-yən, Irish: ) are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland.
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