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Biniouiste (gender unknown)

plural: = singular; (with) definite article: les
(the) piper(s)

local term(s) for a duo or band (ensemble) including a piper (&c.)

Identical types: 18

A duo consisting of a NB: ➺ Biniaouer and a Talabardier [i.e. a Bombarde player (➺ my remark to Binioù kozh)]; Term from an old postcard showing "Les deux plus jeunes Biniouiste [sic] de France"; NB: ➺ my remark on the Polish Silesian Gajdosze (pipers), who often sat on beer barrels turned upside down.


Sources

Postcard Les fins joueurs de L’Aven: Le Louet Frères - Rosporden (Finistère), ca. 1910.