Since a long time ago, the art of the "Habban" or "the bagpipes" occupied a place in the Emirati and the Arab Gulf states artistic heritage, as one of the arts that relies on a major melodic instrument, the bagpipes, which is a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.
Ali Al Abdan, Director of the Artistic Heritage Department at the Sharjah Institute for Heritage, explains that the melodies are released by filling this bag- a closed bag of goat skin- with air, and the player blows it on one side, and changes the notes by pressing the two reeds on the other side. It is played with accompaniments of other percussion instrument.
Al Abdan added that the player begins playing the bagpipes, then the rhythm interferes with the melody, and in parallel line, the queues of participants begin, in rotation, to sing the accompanying text that accompanies the melody, explaining that “the Habban songs have changed with the times to address the new generations.”
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