Bass drone

Description

Bass and baritone drones from a set of Scottish small-pipes made of fruitwood and mounted with ivory, Scottish, late 18th or early 19th century

Museum reference

K.2003.796

Collection

Culture

Object name

Bass drone

Production information

Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

Late 18th - early 19th century

Materials

Fruitwood, Ivory

Physical description

Fruitwood and ivory

Associations

Collector: J. and R. Glen
Ross, Andrew, Sr, 1947 - 1977 (fl.)
Glen and Ross Collection

References

Cheape, Hugh, A Checklist of Bagpipes in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. Edinburgh: Reid School of Music, 1983, p. 34.