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Pfiiffer (m)

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

any person who plays some kind of bagpipe (&c.)

Identical types: 127

General term, once also used in a general fashion for itinerant musicians who played certain wind instruments (Compare Dutch Pijper, &c.); NB: ➺ German Pfeifer, Pfeiffer, Pfiffer, Phifar(e), Phifer, and Swiss Pfifer.

Pfifer

Sources

Bachmann-Geiser, Brigitte: Die Volksmusikinstrumente der Schweiz (Handbuch der europ. Volksmusikinstr. 1/4). Leipzig, 1981, p.97.