Apple Using the GarageBand Jam Pack: World Music Instruments - Manual (Page 29)

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The bagpipe is a a single or double reed instrument that uses a bag, traditionally made
from animal skin, to hold the air used to vibrate the reeds. Players press the bag with
their arm, sending the air through a reed or reeds on a fingered pipe called a chanter
to produce the notes.
The bagpipe can also produce a drone, usually a bass note two octaves below the
chanter’s keynote, which provides a harmonic background for the melody. Some
bagpipes can produces multiple drones in octaves, fourths, or fifths; a few even include
keyed pipes (called regulators) by which the player can sound a countermelody or
accompanying chords.
Indian Bansuri Flute
The flute is one of the oldest instruments in the Hindu tradition, and the god Krishna is
often shown playing a side-blown flute. The bansuri was originally a folk instrument,
but later joined the sitar as one of the main melody instruments used in North Indian
classical music.
The bansuri is a side-blown flute made of bamboo or reed, with six or seven finger
holes tuned to the notes of the diatonic scale. Each bansuri has a range of slightly over
an octave. The Indian Bansuri Flute Software Instrument includes samples of several
instruments of different sizes, allowing it to be playable over the entire keyboard range.
Playing techniques for the bansuri include both vibrato and non-vibrato playing,
fluttertonguing, and a short unpitched trill used as an ornament at the beginning of
notes. The Indian Bansuri Flute Software Instrument gives you all of these playing
styles, accessed using the mod wheel.