What kind of musical instrument is the Scottish bagpipe? What are its characteristics?

Bagpipes are a kind of musical instrument, which belongs to an air-sounding instrument using reeds. Bagpipes are very popular in England and Scotland, which is a part of Scottish traditional culture and belongs to an air-sounding instrument using reeds. Bagpipes generally include blowpipes, airbags, playing pipes and helicopter pipes in structure. In ancient times, bagpipe airbags were made of skins or other materials of animals such as pigs, cows and sheep. Now it's all synthetic materials. The way for the player to provide air to the airbag is to blow air into the blowing pipe. The airbag plays the role of storing gas, so that the player can maintain the sound quality for a period of time when breathing. The sound tube has an open port, so it is difficult to stop the music when playing, which means that most bagpipes always have a coherent sound during playing. The bagpipes are cylindrical and have only one reed. Coils are traditionally made of wood, usually local hardwood. But now it can also be tropical hardwood such as rosewood, ebony or African ebony.

When the melodious sound of Scottish bagpipes floats over the beautiful mountains, everything remains as quiet as before, with scattered shepherds' huts and green land dotted in harmony. Here, people seem to forget all the evil and ugliness in the world, only a peaceful, warm and free home ... Scottish bagpipes have their happiness, lightness and jumping ... The most common musical instrument at Scottish weddings is still bagpipes. Bagpipes are more common in Scottish carnival programs. Lively Scottish men and women who are good at singing and dancing often play bagpipes and dance happily in a leisurely afternoon. At this kind of dance, young men are always carefully choosing their partners, and they are also choosing the girl they have long admired. Beautiful love and perfect marriage are passed down from generation to generation in bagpipes, which are a musical instrument symbolizing happiness, so that they can cherish and follow them.