''Säkkipilli'' is the generic

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term for

bagpipe Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, ...

s, but is also applied to the formerly extinct traditional Finnish bagpipes which are currently being revived.

History

Images of a bagpipe appear in painting dating to the 15th century at a church in

Taivassalo Taivassalo (; sv, Tövsala) is a municipality of Finland, about from the city of Turku. It is located in the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . ...

, though is not definite as to whether the image is intended to depict a local Finnish tradition. Later 17th century sources make mention of the bagpipes in

Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

Revival

One prominent proponent of the revival of the Finnish pipes is the musician Petri Prauda. Prauda began playing the Estonian ''

torupill The torupill () is a traditional bagpipe from Estonia. Place in Estonian folk music It is not clear when the bagpipe became established in Estonia. The instrument was known throughout Estonia. The bagpipe tradition was longest preserved in Wes ...

'', and later had a Finnish bagpipes reconstructed based on museum examples.Dawn K. Shanks
''Start with Finnish''
Culture Week, Oct 1st, 2008

References

External links

Säkkipilli
at Etno.net {{DEFAULTSORT:Sakkipilli Reconstructed musical instruments Finnish musical instruments Bagpipes fi:Säkkipilli