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Line 5: − When she is resident at [[Balmoral]], her favoured Scottish residence, Her Majesty the Queen dispenses with alarm clocks. Instead, she is woken at the desired hour by a proud skirl of the pipes from a bekilted Pipe-Major standing to attention beneath her bedchamber window.
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The pipes usually have three drones: two tenor drones tuned an octave below the chanter's low A, and a longer bass drone tuned one octave below the tenor drones. The chanter usually has eight finger holes, two tone holes, and a range of nine notes from low G to high A.
The pipes usually have three drones: two tenor drones tuned an octave below the chanter's low A, and a longer bass drone tuned one octave below the tenor drones. The chanter usually has eight finger holes, two tone holes, and a range of nine notes from low G to high A.
[[Category:Musical Instrument|Bagpipe, Great Highland]]
[[Category:Musical Instrument|Bagpipe, Great Highland]]
[[Category:Scottish Music]]
[[Category:Scottish Music]]