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Pipe (-)

(with) definite article: Pipen
Säckpipa / Säck-pipa

From the caption by Master Eghil, to one of his frescos (1515 ) showing a piping pig, in the church of Edebo (Uppland); It reads "Ingen är min like uthan Per Lasseson den huite ok Johan medh sin pipe" [Nobody is like me but Per Lasseson the white and Johan with his pipe].

Sources

Allmo, Per-Ulf: Säckpipan i norden: från änglars musik till djävulens blåsbälg (Bagpipes in the nordic countries [From music of the angels to the devil’s bellows]). Stockholm, 1990, p.34, 504 (1515).