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Backe-pype

Bagpipe

Spelling in a rare work published in London in 1561, in which the "true tale" is quoted of a "priest which when any of his parishioners should be maryed, woulde take his Backe-pype and go fetche theym to the Churche, playnge sweetelye afore them, and then would he laye his instrument handsomely upon the Aultare, tyll he had maryed them and sayd Masse. Which thyng being done, he would gentillye bring them home agayne with Backe-pype".


Sources

O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.168.