Border pipes were played on both sides of the border, in the Borders and in the Northumberland, with the same repertoire. The instrument had almost disappeared in the late twentieth century, when musicians and pipe makers choosed to play it again. The pipe is tuned historically in A, with drones in A for bass and tenor, E for the smallest (sometimes two tenors in A with the bass). The chanter is often chromatic.
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Scottish bagpipe from the Borders (part of the Lowlands, Southern Uplands, between Edinburgh and England), known since at least the sixteenth century, it has : - three drones (bass, tenor, fifth) set on the same stock, - a bellows to inflate the bag, or a blowpipe (see picture), - a conical bore chanter which allows the border pipe to be more powerful than the other small bagpipe from Scotland, the small pipe, but definitely sweeter than the Great Highland Bagpipe. It also plays an octave above the small pipe.

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