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Lancashire pipe

Bagpipe (unknown type)

Identical types: 100

Also called Lancashire bagpipe and Lancashire greatpipe; Extinct; Charles I (1600-1649) was said to have a liking for the instrument; Sept. 5, 1702, antiquarian Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) wrote in his diary "Morning, rose by five, having got little rest; The music and Lancashire bag-pipes having continued the whole night at it, …".


Sources

Collinson, Francis: The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument. London, 1975, p.113 (»Lockhardt), 114.

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