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Not a traditional Chinese musical instrument.

It is not a traditional Chinese musical instrument. It's bagpipes

Bagpipes are a popular folk musical instrument in many countries, which originated in ancient Rome. Bagpipes, also known as wind bag pipes, belong to a kind of wind instruments and flutes, and the sound is produced by the vibration of whistles by airflow. Its pronunciation principle is that the player inflates the airbag, and then presses the airflow in the airbag to the drum spring in the sound tube installed on the airbag for pronunciation.

Bagpipes generally include blowpipes, airbags, playing pipes and spiral 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. Bagpipes have simple and sweet timbre, strong penetrating power, and are good at continuous sound, especially its continuous bass. You can hear clearly when you play in the open air. Folk bagpipes play the pastoral style of European pastoral customs.

Types and uses of bagpipes

Bagpipes are traditionally used as musical instruments for dance accompaniment. However, with the emergence of professional dance bands and records and the decline of traditional dance, the role of bagpipes as accompaniment instruments has gradually been forgotten. In the past 30 years, bagpipes, as a unique musical element, have also appeared in other musical forms, such as rock, jazz and classical music.

Bagpipes are very popular in Europe. There are hundreds of bagpipes. Many countries in Europe have their own bagpipes, even in Asia. Scottish highland bagpipes are the loudest of all kinds, and they are also very large in size. A manufacturer of Scottish bagpipes produces 40 sets of Scottish bagpipes every week to meet the market demand all over the world. Scottish bagpipes and records are also increasing year by year. This shows that bagpipes are still very popular all over the world.