biniou

How to use biniou in a sentence

• The drone of the biniou is of boxwood, handsomely inlaid with tin, and has a single or beating reed hidden within the stock.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 | Various

• The sonneur de biniou is blind, and quite wrapped up in his art; he lives, as it were, in a world apart.

  Brittany | Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes

• The orchestra—two violins, a reed-pipe, a biniou, and a harp—were playing away with might and main.

  Lorraine | Robert W. Chambers

• The biniou is rather like a small bagpipe and produces a wild, shrill sound.

  A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago | Anne Douglas Sedgwick

• During the repasts a violinist and a biniou-player, dressed in his Breton costume, played to us.

  A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago | Anne Douglas Sedgwick