Starck also made a bagpipe with but two-drones, being an Irish War Pipe.
In 1581 musician Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, wrote that the bagpipe “is much used by the Irish: to its sound this unconquered fierce and warlike people march their armies and encourage each other to deeds of valor. With it they also accompany the dead to the grave making such sorrowful sounds as to invite, nay to compel the bystander to weep”.
It is interesting that the Irish War Pipe possessed a bass drone at least 200 years earlier than when it first appeared on the Great Highland bagpipe. It is very doubtful that the chanter would have been keyed in those early times.
