“Our instruments are the same as the European ones, but they are much cheaper. We make music more accessible.” A bagpipe manufacturer says in Pakistan’s Sialkot city that produces 10,000 bagpipes a year - more than any country other than the UK
In this picture taken on January 25, 2019, a Pakistani musical band perform with bagpipes made at the Mid East bagpipe factory in the eastern city of Sialkot.
Covered in sawdust, they carve the wood and polish it. Rosewood or ebony serve as the blowstick, into which players exhale. The drones — long pipes with a lower tone — follow a similar process. In this picture taken on January 25, 2019, a Pakistani worker fixes a component to make a set of bagpipes at the Mid East bagpipe factory in the eastern city of Sialkot. “Anywhere the British army went, they took pipers with them,” says Decker Forrest, a Gaelic music teacher at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland.
Forrest says Pakistani bands put the emphasis on how they look, rather than musical technique, “which is less important to them”. In 2014 it established a camel-mounted bagpipe band attached to a unit of Desert Rangers. The camels, draped in scarlet and gold as their musicians sway above them, are particularly appreciated during parades.
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