Lietuvoje dūdmaišis, dar vadinamas kūline su ūku, Labanoro dūda, žinomas jau nuo XVI a. pirmosios pusės. Minimas Vilniaus seimo 1565 m. įsakuose, J. Bretkūno „Biblijos“ vertime (1579–1590 m.). Vartotas daugiausia Mažojoje Lietuvoje ir Rytų Lietuvoje, iki XX a. vidurio išliko Rytų Aukštaitijoje. Solo ir su kitais muzikos instrumentais meškininkai, elgetos, sielininkai, klajojantieji muzikantai grieždavo maršus, šokius, pritardavo giesmėms, dainoms. This melody was played during the closing rite of Baltic music festival Mėnuo Juodaragis MJRXVII as the rain was pouring by the fire altar.
The earliest surviving sculpture of bagpipes has been found on a Hittite slab at Euyuk in the Middle East and is is dated 1000BC.
Bagpipe, having traveled from the Orient via the Arabic countries to Europe as early as the beginning of the historical times, became one of the most popular musical instruments of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Having reached even the furthermost outskirts of Europe, the bagpipe was used not only as a popular musical instrument, but also as a professional one, being employed in the military, at court or for the civic entertainment. The 16th - 17th centuries may be regarded as the “golden age” of the bagpipe in the Baltics.
By the 18th century, when fiddles and other string instruments grew increasingly popular, bagpipes got gradually displaced from court and the civic usage, remaining exclusively the folk instruments.
After having been brought to Lithuania by the traveling musicians the bagpipe got spread via courts and cities, finally becoming one of the most popular or in some places even the only popular folk musical instrument. The Dūda, Kulinė dūda, Labanoro dūda, etc. used to be played at weddings, christenings and other important rituals and festivals, as well as at parties and other public entertainments. In the beginning of the 20th century bagpipe used to be still played in the remote villages scattered in the woodlands of the Eastern Lithuania.

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