Lancashire bagpipe

The Lancashire bagpipe or Lancashire greatpipe has been attested in literature, and commentators have noticed that the Lacanshire bagpipe was also believed proof against witchcraft.^[1]

Historical attestation

• Aphra Behn's Sir Patient Fancy (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"^[2]
• Ralph Thoresby, a topographer, wrote in 1702: "got little rest, the music and Lancashire bagpipes having continued the whole night."^[3]

Further reading

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

References