Nowadays, nobody can assume the
origins of bombardes and binious. Obviously, bagpipes and oboes have been
used in Brittany since the mists of time.Since the XVIIIth and XIXth century,
Lorient has been the breton centre instrument making trade, with outstanding
instrument makers as Garrec, Jacob, Le Chenadec, Robic, Le Goff, Guellec.But
at the same time, all around Brittany, amateur instrument makers (joiners,
sculptors, millers) made binious and bombardes on traditional musicians’
request or for their personal use. At the beginning of the XXth century,
breton instrument making trade was suffering from the new fashion : diatonic
accordion and mechanical piano supplanted binious and bombardes. The re-birth
of the breton instrument making trade was linked to the creation of “bagadoù”
(a bagad is a band like the schottischer Marching Bands whith bombardes,
binious and snares), after the Second World War, and was lead by famous
instrument makers : Dorig Le Voyer, Jean Capitaine, Lanig.In Carhaix during
the sixties, Per Guilloux, the renowned instrument maker, perpetrated the
traditional manufacturing of bombardes and binious koz.
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Today,
there is a dozen of instrument makers, manufacturing bombardes and
binious.
Christian Besrechel is one of them. |
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