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Pìob mhór / Pìob mhòr / Piob mhor (f)

plural: pìoban--mòra
big / large / great, or war pipe [?]
Highland bagpipe

Already 8th century?; NB¹: ➺ Pìob mór (Ireland), and War pipe; NB²: ➺ homonym (Ireland); NB³: Note the differences in spelling in the various sources....

Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.114-115 (Piob mhor).

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.139 (Piob mhor).

García-Oliva Mascarós, Alfonso: Museo de la Gaita: catálogo de las cornemusas del Museo de la Gaita de Gijón. Gijón, s.a. [1992], p.126 (Pìob mhór).

Collinson, Francis: The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument. London, 1975, p.132 (Pìob mhór).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.29 (Piob mhor: »Baines: »Grove, 5th ed.).

Web

LearnGaelic Dictionary [Find piob-mhor] & pronunciation.
LearnGaelic.scot (English - Gàidhlig: gaelic-instruments [Scroll ➺ pìob mhòrl]).
Wiktionary (Pìob-Mhòr).