The bagpipe (oskavlos) reached Greece from Asia in the 1st or 2st cent. AD. It is of two types: The tsamoina (islands) and the goida (Macedonia and Thrace). They are made by the players themselves, the bag (askv) being made from the skin of a goat or kid, which is specially treated, and the mouthpiece being from cane, wood or bone. The two types differ essentially in the part that produces the sound. In the case of the tsamboina, two wooden cane pipes of the clarinet type (with single-beating reeds) are attached with wax to a grooved wooden base. On the one the musician plays the melody and on the other the drone (vson). It is played solo or together with a toumbv (small drum) or a lura (pear-shaped fiddle). In the case of the gaida the two wooden tubes are independent of each other. The shorter one for the melody has 7 pitch holes (6+1), while the second (bourv or basso) is longer, being usually of three sections and sounds the drone (vson). It is played solo or together with a toumbeleki, daoili, or dakhans (tambourine).