Assertion: concertina | /r/CapableOf | serve in such areas
Facets:
value: as a replacement for the pipes
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: It is widely thought that the concertina served in such areas as a replacement for the pipes; the professional ranks of traveling pipers had been dramatically thinned by the Great Famine and its aftermath, when pipers immigrated in droves to American cities like New York and Chicago.