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The dance is so called because it used to be danced in the west of England to the pib-corn or horn-pipe, an instrument consisting of a pipe each end of which was made of horn.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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