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WHAT DOES UNION PIPES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Uilleann pipes

The uilleann pipes /ˈɪlən/ or /ˈɪljən/; Irish: ) are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. Earlier known in English as "union pipes", their current name is a partial translation of the Irish-language term píobaí uilleann (literally, "pipes of the elbow"), from their method of inflation.There is no historical record of the name or use of the term 'uilleann pipes' before the twentieth century. It was an invention of Grattan Flood and the name stuck. People mistook the term 'union' to refer to the 1800 Act of Union; this is incorrect as Breandán Breathnach points out that a poem published in 1796 uses the term 'union'. The bag of the uilleann pipes is inflated by means of a small set of bellows strapped around the waist and the right arm (in the case of a right-handed player; in the case of a left-handed player the location and orientation of all components are reversed). The bellows not only relieve the player from the effort needed to blow into a bag to maintain pressure, they also allow relatively dry air to power the reeds, reducing the adverse effects of moisture on tuning and longevity. Some pipers can converse or sing while playing.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNION PIPES

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WORDS THAT END LIKE UNION PIPES

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Translator English - Chinese

工会管
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tuberías sindicales
570 millions of speakers

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union pipes
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संघ पाइप
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

أنابيب اتحاد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

профсоюзные трубы
278 millions of speakers

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tubos sindicais
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইউনিয়ন পাইপ
260 millions of speakers

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tuyaux syndicaux
220 millions of speakers

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Paip kesatuan
190 millions of speakers

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Gewerkschaftsleitungen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ユニオンパイプ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노조 파이프
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pipa serikat
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

ống công đoàn
80 millions of speakers

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தொழிற்சங்க குழாய்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केंद्रीय पाईप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Birlik boruları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tubi sindacali
65 millions of speakers

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rury związkowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

профспілкові труби
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

conducte de sindicat
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

σωλήνες ένωση
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Unie pype
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

fack rören
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

union rør
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNION PIPES»

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, ...
Mr Topham played the union pipes, with Weippert on the harp, in The Lad of the Hills at Covent Garden Theatre on 9 April 1796. Topham, H. fl. 17/8—1725,, dancer. dancing master. Two Tophams danced in London in the second and third  ...
Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, Edward A. Langhans, 1993
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O Farrells, Pocket Companion, : For The Irish Or Union Pipes
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Dorothea Lady Former Ow Ruggles-Brise, Dorothea Ruggles-Brise, Lady former owner. StEdNL, John 1833 Glen, 2011
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The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle
The modern Irish pipes are referred to as the uilleann pipes, the union pipes, or simply the Irish pipes. Uilleann, apparently a form of an old Irish word for “elbow,” makes reference to the right arm's pumping of a bellows which fills a bag, held ...
Grey Larsen, 2011
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Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances
15, Trinity Street. Tickets issued for 22nd May will be admitted. Singing and InstrumentalMusic: In character Owenson will sing “Sweet Ballinasloe” and “ Chick-a-che Ourilow.” The rondeau on the union pipes by Courtney, composed by Shield, ...
John C. Greene, 2011
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
BT Railroad stations—Califomia Union pipe USE Uilleann pipes Union pipe music USE Uilleann pipes music Union pipes USE Uilleann pipes Union Railroad Station (New London, Conn.) USE New London Railroad Station (New London, ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2006
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Successful Strategies: Triumphing in War and Peace from ...
Indeed, three years before the emergence of Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Pipes was focused on the prospect of generational change in the Soviet leadership. That having been said,  ...
Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich, 2014
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A theoretical and practical treatise on malting and brewing
... through pipes in No. 6, and so on, until it finally leaves by the pipe (b), by which it is conveyed into the fermenting tun. (b) The pipe conveying wort from the refrigerator to the fermenting tun. (c c) Union pipes which connect the pipes No.
George Adolphus Wigney, 1835
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Folk
However, the Irish, Uillean, or Union pipes and the Northumbrian small pipes are more often heard in traditional music. All bagpipes work on the same principles. One pipe, known as the chanter, plays the melody; one or more other pipes, ...
Richard Carlin, Ronald Cohen, 2005
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A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union ...
Dismissing the role of Marxist ideology in the Soviet Union, Pipes cited Raymond Aron as having remarked at a Harvard seminar in the 1950s, "'Ideology' in the Soviet Union boiled down to two propositions: that Communism is good and ...
Vladimir Shlapentokh, 2001
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A History of European Folk Music
The instrument was known as the "union pipes" from the mid-eighteenth until the early twentieth century. According to Roberts, the word uilleann is the invention of musicologists. He bases this statement on a theory propounded by Grattan ...
‎1997

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Philly plumbers union pipes up about skycraper's waterless urinals
But the union put out the word it doesn't like the idea of waterless urinals -- fewer pipes mean less work. The city's licensing department, whose approval is ... «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Apr 06»

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