Welsh bagpipes (Welsh: pipa cŵd, pibau cŵd, pibgod, cotbib, pibau cyrn, chwibanogl a chod, sachbib, backpipes, bacbib) refer specifically to a bagpipe; the generic term pibau (pipes) which covers all woodwind instruments is also used) have been played, documented, represented or described in Wales since the fourteenth century. A piper in Welsh is called a pibydd or a pibgodwr.
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