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Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
bagpipe or Lancashire greatpipe has been attested in literature, and commentators have noticed that the Lancashire bagpipe was also believed proof against
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Historical attestation

* In James Shirley's 1634 masque, ''
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'', the procession to
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was led by Thomas Basset on horseback, playing the Lancashire bagpipe. *
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'' (1678) mentions: "Not so joyful neither Sir, when you shall know Poor Gillian 's dead, My little gray Mare, thou knew'st her mun, Zoz 'thas made me as Melancholy as the Drone of a ''Lancashire Bagpipe''" *
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, a topographer, wrote in 1702: "got little rest, the music and ''Lancashire bagpipes'' having continued the whole night."''cited in'' Francis M. Colinso
''The Bagpipes: The History of a Musical Instrument''
Routledge Kegan & Paul (October 1975)
▪ Cervantes, Don Quixote, translated by P.A Motteux (1712) (Explains), Zamora is a city in Spain, famous for that sort of music, as Lancashire is in England for the bagpipe.


Further reading


''The Bagpipe in Northern England''
R. D. Cannon. Folk Music Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1971), pp. 127–147 *James Merryweathe
''Regional Bagipes: History or Bunk?''


References


See also

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