Scottish bagpipe (Great Highland Bagpipe)

The Scottish bagpipe —the Great Highland Bagpipe— is the best-known bagpipe in the world. It is mouth-blown, like the Asturian gaita, but splits the air pressure across three drones (one bass and two tenor, tuned to the octave and the lower octave of the tonic) and a fixed-scale, keyless conical chanter in the mixolydian mode with nine notes.

It became established as an instrument of war and military parade, tied to the Scottish regiments, and today lives on mainly through competition pipe bands and the solo piobaireachd tradition.

It belongs to the Atlantic arc of European bagpipes, alongside the Asturian, Galician, Irish uilleann and Breton bagpipes.