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Welsh Bagpipe (single-reed type) made by John Glennydd. Welsh bagpipes (Welsh: pipa cŵd [a]; with the names in Welsh referring specifically to a bagpipe) are a related instrument to one type of bagpipe, a chanter, which when played without the bag and drone is called a pibgorn (Welsh for 'hornpipe').
Cornish bagpipes: an extinct type of double chanter bagpipe from Cornwall (southwest England); there are now attempts being made to revive it on the basis of literary descriptions and iconographic representations. [3] Welsh pipes (Welsh: pibe cyrn, pibgod): Of two types, one a descendant of the pibgorn, the other loosely based on the Breton ...
The pipes in Wales, of which the pibgorn is a class, are mentioned in the laws of Hywel Dda (died 949–50). The earliest transcription of these dates from 1250 [6] and specify that "the King should recognise the status of a Pencerdd (the second in importance of the three court musicians, namely; Bardd Teulu, Pencerdd and Cerddor) in his service by giving him an appropriate instrument ...
The Mari and her party would visit houses to sing traditional Welsh songs—wassails—and engage in the ritual of pwnco: a rap-battle of sorts in which the inhabitant and the Mari exchange ...
The Welsh bagpipe is a native Welsh instrument. A related instrument is one type of bagpipe chanter, which when played without the bag and drone is called a pibgorn (hornpipe). The generic term "pibau" (pipes) which covers all woodwind instruments is also used.
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, around the Persian Gulf and northern parts of South Asia.
Lord Prescott's coffin was carried into the minster as former Downing Street director of communications Alastair Campbell played the Welsh national anthem on the bagpipes.
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