Blowing ....

You have to put the reed of the pungi in your mouth, but it is also necessary to breathe!
Some players have a special technic: to breath during playing. They don't stop to breathe.
In this video you see the player with chubby cheeks! He knows the technic!!!!

Turkey: zoerna

In Turkey the mizmar is called: zoerna.

Often people play zoerna together with tapan.
In next video people dance on music of the zoerna and tapan.

Mizmar

Here you see a mizmar from Yemen. It has a double reed.

It is important to know: this instrument is a predecessor of the bagpipe. In West-Europe there are a lot of bagpipe types with a double reed!
Other bagpipe types have a single reed.

Double clarinet and dance

Players in different countries use the double clarinet to play dance for men.

In this video a performance of a  Kurdish mendance. Name of the dance: halay.

The Arghul/Arghoul from Egypt

Both in Ancient Egytian times and nowtoday one played/plays on the Arghul:

There is a very nice video about making such an instrument. You also hear how this instrument sounds.
The link with the bagpipe is of course: using a drone = basic tone.

China: Hulusi

Still we are in the second phase of the bagpipe.
In a previous video you saw and heard the pungi from India.
In China that instrument is called: Hulusi.
My friend has a hulusi and now I'll show you some pictures:

You see: the instrument has 2 drones. With a slide you open or close the drones.

In next video you hear the sound of this instrument:

Second phase

In the second phase appears an air-reservoir:



Now it is not necessary to put the reed in your mouth. A new step is to use a flexible air-reservoir:



On YouTube I found a very nice video. A snake-charmer plays on his "bagpipe". Very interesting: he uses a drone.

The first phase of the bagpipe

The beginning of a bagpipe: a reed pipe with holes and a blow-reed.

In Pakistan, India and other countries in that region there grows a lot of reed. Therefore I suppose that region is the birthplace of the bagpipe.