BAGPIPE (Fr. Cornemuse; Ital. Cornamusa; Germ. Sackpfeife). An instrument, in one or other of its forms, of very great antiquity. By the Greeks it was named ἄσκανλos or σνµθώνεια; by the Romans Tibia utricularis. Mersennus calls it Surdeline, and Bonani Piva or Ciaramella. In Lower Brittany it is termed Bignou, from a Breton word bigno—‘se renfler beaucoup.
’ It has been named Musette (possibly after Colin Muset, an officer of Thibaut de Champagne, king of Navarre). Corruptions of these names,...
