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Old 01-08-2014, 12:14 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by justin22885 View Post
does anyone know of any instruments that have sort of that bagpipe sound without actually being bagpipes that can cover atleast 2 octaves?.. bagpipes are double reed instruments, same as the oboe but i have heard enough of the oboe to really know what it can do
Try out the double mijwiz, if you get a nice one you can tune them a fifth off and I think that can give you two octaves. However, they're commonly tuned in unison (or close to unison if you go cheap).

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