Garais Dancis

It is very posibble to learn...
It's one of the easyest tunes i know.
But still it is latvians best bagpipe melodie

It uses single reeds. The chanter uses a composite single reed, the tie its fastened in the body, to sound louder, but still its a single reed. Chanter slightly conical. Plays from D to E, no overblowing, and have flats and sharps after G. the whole scale is d-e-f#-g-g#-a-a#-b-c-c#-d-e. These accidentals are played because a little hole in the upper part of the chanter, called "flea hole", in the place of the high "d". The drone would be tuned in D, G or A, but I use it commonly in D.

I bought it from a bulgarian master, sounding a 5th lower than the common djura gaida, because this is the most common tuning in Latvia, although it have the adition of the sharps. After, I did put other drone, and exchange the bag, although I think now that the old bag, natural (and smell not exactly good..) was better. These tune its an latvian traditional dance, very knowed. Thanks for your interest,