Bagpipes Pro at App Store analyse

App power index: 100 (based on ranks around App Stores today)
Music Entertainment Education
Developer: Michael Eskin
Price: 0 free
Current version: 4.6, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 01 Nov 2011
App size: 102.52 Mb
4.2 ( 2592 ratings )
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> 2.2k
Monthly downloads
~ $ 900
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Bagpipes Pro is five extremely realistic sounding sets of bagpipes for the iPad that are played using standard Scottish piping fingerings.

The instrument may be transposed up to +/- one octave in semitone increments as well as tuned up to +/- 50 cents.

It includes five authentic sounding sets of Scottish, Irish, and Swedish bagpipes.

The five sets of bagpipes are:

Great Highland Scottish Bagpipes - The most popular Scottish marching pipes, in the traditional key of Bb.

Scottish Border Pipes - A Scottish smallpipe in the key of A with a sound distinctly different from but similar to the Highland pipes.

Scottish Smallpipes - A Scottish smallpipe in the key of A, one octave lower than the Border Pipes, and has a rounder, bubbly sound.

Irish Uillean Pipes - Bellows blown pipes in the key of D

Swedish Säckpipa - A set of Swedish bagpipes in E, with a very haunting sound.

All of the instruments use fingerings based on the standard Scottish Highland bagpipes chanter.

IMPORTANT: Since this app requires as many as 8 fingers on the screen at the same time, before playing, disable "Multitasking Gestures" on your iPad (in the Settings app, under the General section, turn the Multitasking Gestures switch to the off position).

Start/stop the drones playing by touching the drone puck. Select standard or alternate drone note from the controls.

Use the Transpose slider to set the overall instrument transposition in semitones. Touch the transpose value to the left of the slider to reset the transposition to zero.

Use the Tuning slider to set the overall instrument tuning offset in cents. Touch the tuning value to the left of the slider to reset the tuning offset to zero.

To play the chanter, touch the bar at the top left with your left thumb. This bar is the hole normally on the back of a real chanter and must be covered for the lower notes to play.

Next, touch the top three holes of the chanter starting with the tips of your left index, middle, and ring fingers.

Finally, touch the bottom four holes of the chanter with the tips of your right index, middle, ring, and little fingers.

Touch the "i" to show/hide the live performance controls.

Touch the "?" for on-screen help.

Audio samples for the Säckpipa provided by Jonathan Parker from an instrument made in 1986 by Leif Eriksson.

Drone puck image courtesy of Mike DeSmidt.
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Country Price
Canada 3.99 CAD
China 22 CNY
France 2.99 EUR
Germany 2.99 EUR
Italy 2.99 EUR
Netherlands 2.99 EUR
Portugal 2.99 EUR
Spain 2.99 EUR
Poland 3.49 EUR
UK 2.99 GBP
India 299 INR
Japan 400 JPY
Korea, Republic Of 4400 KRW
Poland 14.99 PLN
Russia 249 RUB
Turkey 99.99 TRY
USA 2.99 USD
Korea, Republic Of 3.29 USD
Ukraine 3.99 USD
Available for devices
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