0 a type of musical instrument, played especially in Scotland and Ireland, from which you produce sound by blowing air into a bag and pressing it out through pipes --
1 a musical instrument played by blowing air into a bag and forcing it out through pipes, used esp. in Scotland --
They are there because they are independent and impartial and not because they wear a kilt or play the bagpipes.
The bagpipes are regarded by some people in some places as the finest musical instruments.
I am not going to indulge in cheap gibes such as were made in another place about bagpipes and comic papers.
I should have thought that in any commonsense approach bagpipes and flutes are clearly the kind of instruments played by bands.
I think, however, that one would have problems getting the judiciary there to take too seriously any complaints about the reasonable playing of the bagpipes.
He did not want to go if they had bagpipes.
What is the piping jelly carried in—bagpipes or drainpipes or what?
Of course, we have undoubtedly had the wail of the bagpipes on this side.
