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and one or more drones, harmony pipes which each produce one tone. ? Wind is supplied in bagpipe to one or more reedsounded pipes from a bag inflated by the performer, either through a blowpipe or by a bellows. Because the wind supply is continuous, the sounding pipes normally cannot be silent, and repeated melody notes must be articulated 連接 by inserting grace notes (notes of extremely short duration) between them. Bagpipe ? The simplest bagpipes have a cane pipe with a single reed 簧片 cut in the side。 C and 14176。clock, a perfect toss points the tapered end of the caber to 12 o39。North of the border: Scotland Did you know? ? Loch Ness ? Edinburgh ? Battle of Culloden ? Charles Edward Stuart ? Riding the marches ? Bagpipe ? Hammer throwing ? Caber tossing ? Highland dances ? Tartan Scotland: introduction ? The terrain 地形 of Scotland is predominantly突出地 mountainous but may be divided into three distinct 截然不同的 regions, from north to south: the Highlands, the Central Lowlands, and the Southern Uplands. ? More than onehalf of the surface of Scotland is occupied占據(jù) by the Highlands, the most rugged高低不平的 region on the island of Great Britain. Grampian Mountains, Scotland Grampian Mountains, Scotland ? The Grampian Mountains in central Scotland form a natural division分界線 between the Lowlands and Highlands. ? Cairn Gorm Peak, shown here, has an elevation海拔 of 1245 m and is one of the Grampians? major summits. Scotland: introduction ? To the south of the Highlands lies the Central Lowlands, a narrow belt prising由什么組成 only about onetenth of the area of Scotland, but containing the majority of the country?s population. ? The population of Scotland was 5,128,000. Nearly threequarters of the Scots live in the Central Lowlands. Shetland Islands Scotland: introduction ? Like the climate of the rest of Britain, that of Scotland is subject 受什么影響 to the moderating 適中的 influences of the surrounding seas. ? As a result of these influences, extreme seasonal 季節(jié)性的 variations 變化 are rare, and temperate溫和