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And in many a mountain glen the clans gathered, the pibrochs skirled.
From Time Magazine Archive
With chanters & drones and drums, such Scots-by-sentiment as Privates Chartowich, Ritz and Rozelle have practiced pibrochs and set to the pipes the Marine's own Semper Fidelis.
From Time Magazine Archive
No other could wake such detestable groans, With reed and with chanter—with bag and with drones: All day and all night he delighted the chiels With sniggering pibrochs and jiggety reels.
From The Best Nonsense Verses by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Even when the most distinctive Scotch pibrochs were played I was quite conscious of an Eastern clash in them which no Scot could or would have given.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
The most striking examples of Scotch music are the pibrochs and strathspeys.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
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