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What is a pibroch?

What is a pibroch? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature.
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And heard McDonald's guns in the valley and his pibroch on the hills.
But Robin only held out his hand as if to ask for silence, and struck into the slow measure of a pibroch.
It is no pibroch there will be this night, for Donald is away.
Usually applied to a set piece in the form now commonly called a pibroch.
When our piper played a pibroch, the music of the waves drowned or softened down the harsh sound of the bagpipe, which discoursed most excellent music.
Her Majesty's piper, Mackay, had orders to play a pibroch under her windows every morning at seven o'clock.

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