Highland bagpipe

Description

Set of Highland bagpipes of laburnum, silver and ivory mounted, having drone tops mounted and decorated like thistles and a sheepskin bag with Royal Stewart tartan cover, made by Thomas Glen, Edinburgh, c. 1850

Museum reference

K.2003.741

Collection

Culture

Object name

Highland bagpipe

Production information

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

Date

c. 1850

Materials

Laburnum, Silver, Ivory, Sheepskin

Associations

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

Exhibitions

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

References

Cheape, Hugh. A Checklist of Bagpipes in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. Edinburgh: Reid School of Music, 1983, p. 19.

Campbell and Greated. 1987, p. 279.

Baines, Anthony. "Bagpipes". Occasional Paper on Technology 9, Oxford University Press, 1973.