biniou
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thumb|right|300px| The '''''' is a type of bagpipe. The word means 'bagpipe' in the Breton language.
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thumb|right|300px| The '''''' is a type of bagpipe. The word means 'bagpipe' in the Breton language.
There are two bagpipes called in Brittany: the traditional ', or ' ( means 'old' in Breton; means 'small'), and the ', or ' ( means 'big'), which was brought into Brittany from Scotland in the late 19th century. The oldest native bagpipe in Brittany is the , from which the is thought to be derived.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “biniou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.