Assertion: bagpipe's sound | /r/HasProperty | continuous
Facets:
value: to articulate the melody
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The sound is continuous; to articulate the melody and to reiterate notes the piper employs gracing—
text: The sound that a bagpipe produces is continuous as the bag is constantly filled by the piper and rhythmically squeezed to feed air to the chanter and drones.
text: The pastoral pipes are like the Highland pipes in that the sound is continuous; notes are articulated by finger techniques such as gracenotes.
text: This means that the sound of the chanter is continuous, rather than staccato, and that its range is only nine notes, rather than the nearly two octaves of the later 18th/19th century style Northumbrian pipes.