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The music played is mostly traditional dances (and older people will start dancing to the music), although occasionally, the instruments will be taken into the church to play local hymns as well. The dances often take the form of a "dialogue" between the bagpipes and the bombardes, with the same sentence being repeated first by one set of instruments, then by another. The sound is a little whiny, but the rhythm is very catching.

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