Everything you wanted (or didn't want) to know about Bagpipes

I guess I'd better post on bagpipes.  Bagpipes are composed of four major parts, the bag, the drones, the chanter and the blowpipe.  The bag is rather self-evident.  The drones are the three large pipes that come out of the bag and rest on a person's shoulder.  There are two tenor drones, which play one octave below "A" on the chanter, and one bass drone, which plays two octaves below "A".  The chanter is where someone places their fingers.  The blowpipe is what you blow into.  On the chanter, there are eight holes, which can play nine notes.  In addition to these nine "melody" notes, there are three gracenotes, played by quickly lifting a finger.  These are the "G", "E" and "D" gracenotes.  These gracenotes are further combined into movements, such as doublings, taorluaths, leumluaths, D throws, birls, darados and others.  There are two main styles of music, the pibrocreachd, or Ceol Mor, which is the War Music, and the "Dance" music.  Not all "Dance" music is actually danced to though.  This music is divided into numerous sub-genres, some of which are, marches, reels, jigs and strathspeys.  Here's some pictures of bagpipes.