Warbler
A trill / shake performed on a bagpipe; Mentioned in the "Historical sketch of the Scotch bag-pipe" in »Glen’s collection...«, part 1 (1870), in which it is stated that some George Mackie used it to make "a great improvement in his style of playing"; NB¹: The term is a derivation of the verb "to warble" (sing melodiously with trills, quavers, &c. like a bird; Interestingly, in dictionaries the defintion of warbler is actually "any of a family of small songbirds related to the thrushes"); NB²: ➺ Warble pipe.
Glen’s collection for the great highland bagpipe. Edinburgh, s.a. [ca. 1880], p.ix.
Flood, Wm. H. [William Henry] Grattan: The story of the bagpipe. London, 1911, p.176 (»Glen’s historical sketch).
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