accomplished player. It is played on by Ariel, see a subsequent quotation from The Tempest 32, 126 and 152. Also Much Ado 23,13; and the tabor alone, in Twelfth Night 31.
The Bagpipe[1] was very similar to the instruments of that name which still exist. At the present moment there are four kinds in use—Highland Scotch, Lowland Scotch, Northumbrian, and Irish. The last has bellows instead of a 'bag,' but in other ways they are very much alike. They all have 'drones,' which sound a particular note or notes continually, while the tune is played on the 'chanter.' Shakespeare himself tells us of another variety—viz., the Lincolnshire bagpipe, in Hen. 4. A. 12, 76, where Falstaff compares his low spirits to the melancholy 'drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.'[2]
The servant's second speech refers to the character of the words of the popular ballads, which were too often coarse and even indecent.
'Love-songs' are quite a large class, frequently referred to. For instance, Two Gent. 21, 15.
