a musical instrument of the wind kind, chiefly used in country-places, especially in the North. It consists of two principal parts; the first a leathern bag, which blows up like a foot-ball, by means of a port-vent, or little tube, fitted to it, and stopped by a valve: the other part consists of three pipes or flutes; the first called the great pipe, or drone; the second, the little one; which puffs the wind out only at the bottom; the third has a reed, and is played on by compressing the bag under the arm, when full, and opening or stopping the holes, which are eight, with the fingers. The little pipe is ordinarily a foot long; that played on, 13 inches; and the port-vent, six.