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.