Hofer Stefanie Maria 14.01.2008

THE BAGPIPE IN THE UNITED KINDOM

Information for the pupils:

The bagpipe is a wind instrument made of wood and skin.

A bagpipe consists of a blowpipe, a bag, a chanter, and usually a drone.

The blowpipe is in the mouth of the piper, he puffs air into the pipe to fill

the bag.

The bag is made of skins form sheep or cows, where the air is hold.

The chanter is the melody pipe, played by one or two hands like a flute.

The drone is a tube, witch produce only single notes.

In the bible and in some letters form the emperor Nero are bagpipes

mentioned.

We know that the bagpipe was played 1000 after Christ.

In Scotland the bagpipe is an important instrument on the royal court.

The Great Highland Bagpipe is probably the best-known variety of

bagpipes in Ireland, England and Scotland.

The queen Elisabeth II of the United Kingdom is woken up with the

sound from a bagpipe.

In The United Kingdom are many pipe bands.

Bagpipe music is performance at weddings, funerals, dinners, birthday

parties, openings (of a shop), etc.

A Scottish wedding isn't complete without a Bagpiper to greet the guests.

After Dinner the Bagpiper plays and the guests begins to dance.

At festivals like Hogmanay and Burns Suppers a Bagpiper plays the

bagpipe.

Often the Scottish Bagpiper wears a kilt, that’s like a skirt for man.

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Describe the bagpipe

Procedure:

Form a circle (or copy the picture on an overhead folio).

Put the picture in the circle.

Give every kid a word card.

Read the word card aloud.

Put the names of the particles of the bagpipe to the right place of the

picture.

Add the description of the particles to the picture.

Teaching aims:

The pupils should understand the word cards.

The pupils should understand the sentences.

Pupils should be able to combine the word cards and the sentences with

the picture of the bagpipe.

Materials:

Picture of the bagpipe

Word cards

Sentences

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an air baga chanter

a blow pipedrones

It is made of skin form sheep and cows

and the air is hold in there.

It is also called melody pipe and has

finger holes that are played to produce

the tune/melody.

It is played like a flute.

The piper needs it to blow air with his

mouth into the bag.

There are pipes also called tunes.

They only produce single notes.

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