# Shuttle pipes

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{{Short description|Bagpipes from France}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2016}}

{{Infobox instrument
|name= Shuttle Pipes
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|background=woodwind
|classification=
*[Aerophone](/source/Aerophone)
*Wind
*Woodwind
*[Bagpipe](/source/Bagpipe)
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|related=
*[Border pipes](/source/Border_pipes)
*[Northumbrian pipes](/source/Northumbrian_pipes)
*[Pastoral pipes](/source/Pastoral_pipes)
*[Scottish smallpipes](/source/Scottish_smallpipes)
}}

'''Shuttle pipes''' are a type of [bagpipes](/source/bagpipes) which derive their name from the [drones](/source/Drone_(music)) used to produce the [harmony](/source/harmony).<ref name="DRP">Dr. Raphael Pazo: ''History of Shuttle Bagpipes'', https://web.archive.org/web/20201020080510/https://www.californiabagpiper.com/, last updated on Thu February 23 09.</ref> Rather than the long tube-like drones of most bagpipes, shuttle pipes use a shuttle drone, a cylindrical chamber enclosing a series of folded drone tubes, each terminating in a slot covered by a sliding "shuttle" which can be adjusted to lengthen or shorten the distance traveled by air moving through the tube, thus flattening or sharpening the pitch of the note produced.<ref name="DRP"/><ref name="CB">Christopher Bayley: ''Shuttle Pipes'', https://web.archive.org/web/20180506213856/http://www.bagpipeworld.co.uk/country/britain/shuttle.html, accessed May 26, 2012.</ref><ref name="JF">Jerry Finegan: ''Scottish Smallpipes & Shuttle Pipes'', https://web.archive.org/web/20200201231049/http://www.raleighbagpiper.com/Smallpipes.aspx, last updated 2011.</ref>

Like other bagpipes, shuttle pipes have a [chanter](/source/chanter) which is used to play the [melody](/source/melody).<ref name="DRP"/> Some modern versions use [Great Highland Bagpipe](/source/Great_Highland_Bagpipe) [fingering](/source/Fingering_(music)) so that Highland bagpipers can easily play it.<ref name="JF"/><ref name="GOB">George O. Barton, Pipe Master: ''Shuttle Pipes History'', https://web.archive.org/web/20150416013903/http://www.celticpiper.com/pipes/shuttle.html, accessed May 26, 2012.</ref>  The bag of the modern shuttle pipe is either mouth-inflated through a blowpipe (or blowstick), or [bellows](/source/bellows)-inflated.<ref name="DRP"/> 

Shuttle pipes appeared during the latter half of the 16th century, possibly in France, influenced by the [Rackett](/source/Rackett),<ref name="CB"/> and were popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.<ref name="DRP"/><ref name="JF"/> The original form is generally believed to have been bellows-blown—a drawing of a set of bellows-blown shuttle pipes appears in a 1618 ''Syntagma Musicum'' (''Treatise of Music'') by composer and music theorist [Michael Praetorius](/source/Michael_Praetorius) (1571–1621),<ref name="DRP"/> and a bellows-blown French form, the [musette de cour](/source/musette_de_cour), is portrayed by [Flemish baroque](/source/Flemish_Baroque_painting) artist [Sir Anthony van Dyck](/source/Sir_Anthony_van_Dyck) (1599–1641) in his early 1630s painting ''Portrait of François Langlois''.<ref name="DRP"/><ref name ="TNG">The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London: ''Portrait of François Langlois'',  http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/anthony-van-dyck-portrait-of-francois-langlois, accessed May 26, 2012.</ref>  The [musette de cour](/source/musette_de_cour) was reputedly played by [King Louis XIV](/source/King_Louis_XIV) of France (1638–1715).<ref name="DRP"/> Interest in the shuttle pipes waned in the 19th century, and they were nearly forgotten by the early 20th century, but they were rediscovered in the 1980s, and they now fill a niche in popular and traditional music for a bagpipes sound where highland pipes would be overwhelming.<ref name="DRP"/><ref name="JF"/><ref name="GOB"/>

thumb|A modern shuttle pipe made by John Walsh.

==See also==
*[Types of bagpipes](/source/Types_of_bagpipes)
*[Pastoral Pipes](/source/Pastoral_Pipes)
*[List of bagpipers](/source/List_of_bagpipers)
*[List of pipe makers](/source/List_of_pipe_makers)
*[Glossary of bagpipe terms](/source/Glossary_of_bagpipe_terms)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/anthony-van-dyck-portrait-of-francois-langlois Musette de cour portrayed in van Dyck's '' Portrait of François Langlois '', early 1630s.]

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Category:Bagpipes
Category:16th-century introductions
Category:16th-century establishments in France
Category:16th century in music
Category:Early musical instruments

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