Great Irish warpipes

Irish warpipes
Woodwind
Other namesPíob mhór
Classification
Hornbostel–Sachs classificationMixed: 422.122.2 & 422.221.1
(set of reed aerophones)
Developed7th century
Related instruments
An Irish piper playing very large bagpipes, from a copy of a 1578 woodcut.

Irish warpipes (Irish: píob mhór; literally "great pipes") are an Irish analogue of the Scottish great Highland bagpipe. "Warpipes" is originally an English term. The first use of the Gaelic term in Ireland was recorded in a poem by Seán Ó Neachtain (c. 1650–1728), in which the bagpipes are referred to as píb mhór.[1]

  1. ^ Donnelly, Seán (April 1984). "The Warpipes in Ireland IV". Ceol.