pibgorn

pibgyrn) is one of the oldest Welsh instruments known. The laws of Hywel Dda (codified 940–50) specify that every master employing a pencerdd (chief musician) should give him the necessary harp, crwth and pibgorn. However the instrument was not described in writing until about 1775.

noun. stock·​horn. ˈstäkˌhȯrn. : an obsolete Scottish musical instrument similar to the Welsh pibgorn.

The Welsh Bagpipes and the traditional horn pipe. Bagpipes have been documented in Wales since at least the 12th century. The Welsh Laws of Hywel Dda, in the 10th century and later versions in the 12th and 13th centuries provide information about the status of music in Wales.

Wales The pibgorn is a simple reed instrument once popular with shepherds and cattle drovers. It is made up of a wooden pipe and the horns of a bull. One horn is used as a mouthpiece and another to form a bell end which helps amplify the sound.

Discontinuation from Comics.com With United Media's announcement that “Pibgorn” is to be discontinued, I have been inundated with e-mail, much of it agitated and distressed. I'm very sorry you had to get the news in this rather dispassionate way.

pastoral pipe The stock-and-horn represents a vanished type of eighteenth-century pastoral pipe which appears to have led at most a shadowy existence in the southern half of Scotland, though Burns * mentions a specimen he obtained from as far north as the Braes of Athole.

The reed is not made fast in the bone, but is held in the lips, and plays loose in the smaller end of the "stock", while the "stock" and horn hanging on its larger end, is held by the hands playing. The stock has six or seven ventiges in the upper side, and one back ventige, like the common flute.

The word 'piobaireachd' literally means pipe playing or pipe music, but is now used to describe the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. Another name for it is 'ceol mor', the 'big music', as apposed to all other forms of pipe music, marches, reels, jigs etc., referred to as 'ceol beag', little music.

Scotland It is native to Scotland. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world. The bagpipe is first attested in Scotland around 1400, having previously appeared in European artwork in Spain in the 13th century.

The pibgorn consists of six holes for the fingers and a thumb hole at the back, similar to a recorder, giving a range of 8 notes. It was used for playing dance music and passing the time on the cattle droves. Pibgorns are rare instruments, although they can be made to order by specialist instrument makers.

From a letter from Brooke McEldowney to his readers: With United Media's announcement that “Pibgorn” is to be discontinued, I have been inundated with e-mail, much of it agitated and distressed. I'm very sorry you had to get the news in this rather dispassionate way.

On April 17, 2007, United Feature Syndicate announced through Comics.com that Pibgorn would be discontinued on the following day.