Pibcorn

Pibcorn Welsh *hornpipe, similar to the Scottish *stock and horn, believed to have been in use in the Middle Ages; it survived in N. Wales and Anglesey until the 18th c. Recently it has been revived. The only preserved specimens date from the 18th c. and were probably made by shepherds on Anglesey. A pibcorn is depicted in a 15th-c. window of St. Mary's Church, Warwick. Pibcorns were made of a single or double cylindrical chanter with idioglott beating reed, terminating in a cow-horn bell, with…