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42 pipers share a stage

The instrumental party of the Estonian Song and Dance Festival occurs twice within five years: once as part of the all-Estonian festival and once as part of the youth festival.

This year, for only the third time, the folk music party (rahvamuusikapidu) took place in Freedom Square, in the capital, Tallinn. As well as Estonian bagpipe players, there were other instrumentalists playing the kannel (the small archaic kannel and zither), fiddles, plucked string instruments, bowed harp (hiiu kannel), karmoška and Eesti lõõts (types of diatonic accordions) and the main orchestra played pieces of Estonian folk music arranged or composed especially for this festival.

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