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Pibgorn (gender unknown)

Hornpipe with a mouthpiece: yoke / single chanter, bell / double reed

No identical types known (yet).

18th century; NB: = Cornepipe (Scotland).

Made of elder (Sambucus nigra), with a mouth-piece of horn (or, sometimes, a wooden Reed-cap) and a jaw-like serrated horn bell.

Cornbib, Cornbibell, Cornicyll, Pibcorn, Piccorn

Pibgorn

Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile].

Peate, Iorwerth C.: Welsh musical instruments. In: Man XLVII, 17 (1947), p.21 (»Balfour).

Galpin, Francis William: Old English instruments of music: their history and character. London, s.a. [1910], p.171.

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (➺ Pibcorn).