What kind of animal are bagpipes made from?

Question

I know that guitars were strung with catgut in the past. I also know that drums were made from the taut skins of elks. Some people even say that xylophones were made from the ribs of really big lizards. But what about bagpipes? What sort of creature are they made from?

Answer 1

bagpipes are made from synthetic rubber, wool, wood and either bone, plastic or alabaster.

old pipies used a sheeps stomach instead of synthetic rubber and used sheep bone to create the unions in the pipes

Answer 2

my guess would be sheep its probably wool

Answer 3

Wild Scottish Haggis!

Answer 4

ancient bagpipes were made from animal skins and small bones.

Answer 5

The Tartan Tooly Troll, a rare and now extinct boggart residing from lochs all over scotland in the 1800's

Answer 6

i think it's made from a sheep stomach. either that or a cow or a pig

Answer 7

The stocks are made from wood. They used ivory for the mounts (now plastic).   The bag was learther from a sheep in  Scotland and sheep or goat in Europe.  Most N. American bags are cow leather.

Answer 8

They are made from the haggis.  We used to keep one, but it got off it's chain in the night.

Answer 9

haggis

or the singular haggi

a large mountainous animal that lives secretively in the highlands

they have legs on the left which are shorter than the ones on the right

this allows them to walk up hills by going round the hills in an anticlockwise direction

when they get to the top they fall down and start allover again

the ones which die are harvested for the bagpipe industry

Answer 10

babby seals

Answer 11

I'm not sure, but that's what my cat sounds like when I squeeze him.

Answer 12

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have historically been found throughout Europe, and into Northern Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Caucasus. (See: List of bagpipes)

The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although in the English language pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe."

The bagpipes are simply an airtight (or nearly airtight) reservoir which can hold air and regulate its flow while the player breathes or pumps with a bellows, enabling the player to maintain continuous sound for some time. Materials used for bags vary widely, but the most common are the skins of local animals such as goats, sheep, and cows. More recently, bags made of synthetic materials including Gore-Tex have become common.

Bags cut from larger materials are usually saddle-stitched with an extra strip folded over the seam and stitched (for skin bags) or glued (for synthetic bags) to reduce leaks. Holes are cut to accommodate the stocks. In the case of bags made from largely-intact animal skins the stocks are typically tied into the points where limbs and the head joined the body of the living animal, a construction technique common in Central and Eastern Europe.

Answer 13

Haggis

Answer 14

A tartan deer.

Seriously, the bag was traditionally made of animal skins.