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Irish bagpipe, sixteenth century

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The bagpipe is of high antiquity in Ireland, and is alluded to in Irish poetry and prose said to date from the tenth century. A pig gravely engaged in playing the bagpipe is represented in an illuminated Irish manuscript, of the year 1300: and we give a copy of a woodcut from “The Image of Ireland,” a book printed in London in 1581.

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Musical Instruments
Written by Carl Engel
Published in 1875
Available from gutenberg.org
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