Binioux vs Biniou - What's the difference?
binioux | biniou |
* 1958 , European Review VIII–X,
* 1990 , Don Bailey and Daile Unruh (editors), Canadian Christmas Stories: In Prose & Verse , Quarry Press,
* 2000 May 6th, “Sue Quick” (username), “
As nouns the difference between binioux and biniou
is that binioux is while biniou is (music) a set of traditional breton bagpipes.binioux
English
Noun
(head)page 43/1:
- It is pleasant, if a little surprising at first, to the Scotsmen in the fleet to hear at Gibraltar the bagpipes or binioux as they are known in France being played tunefully by Breton seamen from the French ships.
page 54:
- In Brittany the boys and girls danced the bourrèe and the cariole to the sound of the binioux , which is something like the bagpipes that the Scotch play in their misty hills.
Re: sonneurs de cornemuses” in rec.music.folk, Usenet :
- There should be some kind of (international) law against this. They play Scottish bagpipes, Breton binioux (that’s like a less tamed version of the Egyptian howlpipes) and drums.