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Biniouiste / Binioutiste (gender unknown)

plural: a = singular / b: Binioutistes; (with) definite article: les
(the) piper(s)

local term(s) for a duo or band (ensemble) including a piper (&c.)

Identical types: 18

A duo consisting of a Biniaouer and a Talabardier [i.e. a Bombarde player (➺ my remark to Binioù kozh)]; Biniouiste: Term from an old postcard showing "Les deux plus jeunes Biniouiste [sic (singular) !] de France"; NB¹: ➺ my remark on the Polish Silesian Gajdosze (pipers), who often sat on beer barrels turned upside down; NB²: "Air du temps" mentions
the term KAV ("Kenvreuriez Ar Viniouerien" [WS: Brotherhood of bagpipe players] - confrérie de binioutistes [sic!]), which was a band founded 1932 in Paris that obtained several Scottish instruments (bagpipes & percussion) from some patron, and tried to have bombardes made by a Parisian luthier, but without the models produced satisfying the musicians...


Sources

Postcard Les fins joueurs de L’Aven: Le Louet Frères - Rosporden (Finistère), ca. 1910.

Airs du temps: cornemuses du monde, musiques des régions. Ploezal, 1996: p.16 (➺ Confrérie …).