What national musical instruments are there in Ireland?

Irish tin whistle is a short vertical whistle tube, which is made of alloy and has six finger holes. Its sound is bright and pure. At first, it was a wooden conical whistle, but in the 1960s, it developed into a cylinder with a plastic mouthpiece. The effective range of an instrument is within two octaves, and sounds slightly higher than this range can also be produced by blowing.

2. Irish bagpipes

Bagpipes actually came from ancient Rome and were played by many nationalities. Bagpipes were very popular in England at that time. Only later, because Scottish bagpipes were so famous, bagpipes were regarded as Scottish national musical instruments. Since then, bagpipes have also been widely used in Irish folk music.

3. Irish harp

The harp was invented by the Celts. Celtic, the early inhabitants of Ireland, is a nation with great musical and artistic talent. They created a lot of songs in their work, such as spinning songs, grinding Google, fishing songs and so on. Besides, there are poets who specialize in playing the harp and singing, and they are masters of ancient professional music and poetry.

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The historical origin of bagpipes:

Although the early history of bagpipes is not clear, it may have originated in the Middle East or Central Asia. The earliest secular record of bagpipes is about 400 BC, when aristophanes, an Athenian poet, mocked the bagpipers in Thebes (the enemy of Athens) for playing bagpipes made of dog skins and bones.

Hundreds of years later, the Roman emperor Nero said that he would play bagpipes in public places as a punishment for not winning the poetry competition. The dark ages left us nothing about bagpipes and their social status. Before 12 century, only some stone carvings in pickett and Ireland recorded the persistence of bagpipes in this period.

As for the arrival time of bagpipes in the British Isles, it is still controversial. The excavation of the figurine of the bagpiper in the Roman era in Britain shows the possibility of being introduced by the Romans. /kloc-The Crusades in the 0/2nd century broadened Europe's horizons, and European art and culture began to flourish. Bagpipes are no exception. Many unique bagpipes in Europe began to develop around this period.

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