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* Lenahan's "Nothin'" is ''blues'' bagpipes.
* The German Medieval Rock band In Extremo make use of the Marktsackpfeife, a german bagpipe about as loud as the traditional scottish one.
* The group MacUmba plays music that's a fusion of bagpipes and Brazilian Samba drums. Listen [https://web.archive.org/web/20150701023343/http://www.macumba.com/mac1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=2 here]
* The song "Gimme the Prize" by [[Queen]] has a brief instrumental section that's clearly meant to be evocative of bagpipes; not surprising, since the song originates in the first ''[[Highlander]]'' film.
* Composer/humorist Peter Schikele utilizes bagpipes to comic effect in some of his [[P.D.Q. Bach]] works; most notably in the ''Pervertimento for Bicycle, Bagpipes, and Balloons'' (which subverts the "louder" aspect in one movement by using the wheezy practice chanter), but also in a ''Sinfonia Concertante'' in which the bagpipes player executes florid, highly embellished mock-Baroque passages, while completely drowning out the other much softer solo instruments, such as a lute. (As Schickele is fond of saying when he introduces the piece, "It's a lovely lute.....think of it while you're listening to the bagpipes.")
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