Hornpipe (musical instrument)
- Hornpipe (musical instrument)
The hornpipe is a woodwind instrument incorporating animal horn around the reed, at the sounding end, or both. It is a single-reed instrument, in some cases played with the mouth and in others with a bag. It was also known as the pibcorn, pibgorn, or piccorn.
References
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* Baines, Anthony C. 1995 "Bagpipes", 3rd ed. Occasional Papers on Technology. Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum.
External links
* [http://www.highlandhornpipe.com/background.html Highland hornpipe background]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0959-5295(1891)20%3C142%3ATOB%22O%22%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q Henry Balfour, "The Old British "Pibcorn" or "Hornpipe" and its Affinities", The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1891), pp. 142-154] (abstract on JSTOR)
ee also
*Alboka
*Clarinet
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