Säkkipilli
The bagpipe in Finland
From historical fragments to a new instrument
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A lost sound returns
For centuries, bagpipes were part of the musical landscape around the Baltic Sea. In Finland, the instrument eventually disappeared; leaving behind fragments, images, memories and unanswered questions.
Today, the Säkkipilli is sounding again.
Where did it go?
The traces were there.
An archaeological find. Old images. Written references. Instruments and traditions just across Finland’s borders.
But there was no complete Finnish bagpipe waiting in a museum case to be copied.
Finding the Säkkipilli meant following those traces — and asking what a Finnish bagpipe could become today.
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A MEETING THAT CHANGED THE QUESTION
In 2017, Finnish musician Petri Prauda met Portuguese bagpipe maker and musician Gonçalo Cruz.
Prauda had already spent years bringing the bagpipe into Finnish folk music. Their conversations revealed a larger challenge: Finland needed more than evidence of a lost instrument. It needed an instrument musicians could actually play, trust, teach and make their own.
That question brought Gonçalo to Finland and became the starting point for his doctoral research at the Sibelius Academy.
Following the trail
The search crossed borders
Baltic Sea Bagpipes
Museum collections in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania opened a remarkable world of surviving instruments, reeds, drones, chanters and musical ideas.
The Baltic Sea became a map of connections rather than boundaries.
That wider journey now continues through the Baltic Sea Bagpipes research archive and network.
THE NEO-SÄKKIPILLI
Rooted in history. Made for today.
Years of museum research, instrument making, experimentation and playing led to the Neo–Säkkipilli — a new Finnish bagpipe grounded in historical evidence and designed for contemporary musical life.
It is an instrument to play, learn, teach, perform, explore and develop.
And, most importantly, it gives the Säkkipilli somewhere to go next.
THE STORY CONTINUES
A musical tradition does not live in an archive.
It lives when somebody picks up an instrument.
When a tune is learned.
When somebody teaches it.
When musicians change it.
When another instrument is made.
The Säkkipilli has a history again — and its next chapter is only beginning.
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Where did it go?
The traces were there.
An archaeological find. Old images. Written references. Instruments and traditions just across Finland’s borders.
But there was no complete Finnish bagpipe waiting in a museum case to be copied.
Finding the Säkkipilli meant following those traces — and asking what a Finnish bagpipe could become today.
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