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The Great Irish Warpipes ((アイルランド語:píob mhór); literally "great pipes") are an instrument that is analogous or identical to the Great Highland Bagpipe. "Warpipes" is an English term; the first use of the Gaelic term in Ireland is recorded in a poem by Seán Ó Neachtain (c. 1650-1728), in which the bagpipes are referred to as ''píb mhór''. ==History== An Irish Gaelic version of “Fierabas” may contain the first reference to warpipes: the quote “''sinnter adharca agus piba agaibh do tinol bur sluaigh''” translates as “let horns and pipes be played by you to gather your host.” The manuscript may date to the 15th century and the writer may have had bagpipes in mind. The first clear references to the Irish ''píob mhór'' relate to Henry VIII's siege of Boulogne. A muster roll of the “Kerne to be transported into Englaunde to serve the kinge” contains entries of various pipers attached to these forces, such as “The Baron of Delvene’s Kerne — Brene McGuntyre pyper”.〔Donnelly, Seán, "The Warpipes in Ireland I", Ceol, July 1981〕 and according to an entry in ''Holinshed’s Chronicles'' (1577) for May 1544, “In the same moneth also passed through the citie of London in warlike manner, to the number of seaven hundred Irishmen, having for their weapons darts and handguns with bagpipes before them: and in St. James Park besides Westminster they mustered before the king.”〔 In a 1581 volume, musician Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, wrote that the bagpipe "is much used by the Irish: to its sound this unconquered fierce and warlike people march their armies and encourage each other to deeds of valor. With it they also accompany the dead to the grave making such sorrowful sounds as to invite, nay to compel the bystander to weep". In the same year, John Derricke published the poem "The Image of Ireland", in which the pipes are already used to convey signals in battle: :Now goe the foes to wracke :The Kerne apace doe sweate :And baggepype then instead of Trompe :Doe lull the back retreate One famous description of the pipes from Richard Stanihurst's ''De Rebus Hibernicis'' (1586), reads as follows in English translation: The pipes seem to have figured prominently in the war with William of Orange. When the exiled King James II arrived in Cork City in March 1689, he was greeted with “bagpipes and dancing, throwing their mantles under his horse’s feet”. On his way to the castle in Dublin, “the pipers of the several companies played the Tune of The King enjoys his own again”.〔Donnelly, Seán, "The Warpipes in Ireland III", Ceol, April 1983〕 There are also late 17th century reports of peacetime use of the pipes, for example to play for hurling teams.〔 For 18th century references, however, it is often difficult to tell whether the pipes referred to in a particular case are ''píob mhór'' or another instrument. There are a number of reports of pipers in Irish regiments of the British Army in the 18th century; for example, a Barney Thompson (reportedly of Hillsborough, Co. Down) is attested in Lord Rawdon’s Volunteers of Ireland in New York in 1778.〔Grattan Flood, W. H., ''The Story of the Bagpipe'' (London, 1911)〕 Information from a muster roll indicates that there was at least a Piper Barney Thompson in the regiment.〔(Volunteers of Ireland presumed at or near Camden, 1780 )〕 However, Thompson seems to have played a bellows-blown (Pastoral/Union) bagpipe, which could be sung to, and not a warpipe.〔(Discussion on pipers T. Lawler and B. Thompson )〕 One way or another, by the 19th century, the Irish warpipes died out, or at least fell into obscurity. Perhaps the ''píob mhór'', while played by a few individuals, came to be seen as mainly Scottish, the bellows-blown union or uilleann pipes being the new "Irish pipes". Business directories of Dublin in 1840 show a Maurice Coyne as a maker of Union and "Scotch" bagpipes at 41 James Street. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Irish Warpipes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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