has gloss | eng: Welsh bagpipes (Welsh pibau, pipa cŵd, pibau cŵd, pibgod, cotbib, pibau cyrn, chwibanogl a chod, sachbib, backpipes or bacbib) have been documented, represented or described in Wales since the fourteenth century. In 1376, the poet Iolo Goch describes the instrument in his Cywydd to Syr Hywel y Fwyall. . Also, in the same century, Brut y Tywysogion ("Chronicle of the Princes"), written around 1330 AD, states that there are three types of wind instrument: Organ, a Phibeu a Cherd y got ("organ, and pipes and bag music"). A piper in Welsh is called a pibydd or a pibgodwr. |