Highland bagpipe

Description

Set of Highland bagpipes with a chanter of cocus wood, ivory mounted, and a horn mouthpiece, previously owned by Sir Joseph Noel Paton, who acquired it from John Francis Campbell of Islay, made by Thomas Glen, Edinburgh, c. 1850

Museum reference

K.2001.894

Collection

Culture

Object name

Highland bagpipe

Production information

Glen, Thomas McBean, 1804 - 1873, Manufacturer
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

c. 1850

Materials

Cocus wood, Ivory, Horn

Associations

Previous owner: Paton, Joseph Noel, Sir, 1821 - 1901
Previous owner: Campbell, John Francis, 1821 - 1885

Exhibitions

• Wild and Majestic Romantic Visions of Scotland (28 Jun 2019 - 10 Nov 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Performance and Lives (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Cheape, Hugh. The World of a Nineteenth-Century Artist in Scotland. Review of Scottish Culture, No. 3. 1987, pp. 76 - 96.

Paton, Joseph Noel. Private Catalogue of Arrow, Wheatgrass and Other Objects of Antiquity in the Collection of Sir Noel Paton. Edinburgh: 1879, p. 17.