Welsh bagpipes

Welsh Bagpipe (single-reed type) made by John Glennydd

Welsh bagpipes (Welsh: pipa cŵd, pibau cŵd, côd-biban, côd-bibau,[1] pibgod, cotbib, pibau cyrn, chwibanogl a chod, sachbib, backpipes, bacbib) The names in Welsh refer specifically to a bagpipe. A related instrument is one type of bagpipe chanter, which when played without the bag and drone is called a pibgorn (English:hornpipe). The generic term pibau (pipes) which covers all woodwind instruments is also used. They have been played, documented, represented and described in Wales since the fourteenth century. A piper in Welsh is called a pibydd or a pibgodwr.

  1. ^ "Geiriadur Saesoneg a Chymraeg. An English and Welsh Dictionary, etc". 1811.

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