Highland bagpipe

Description

Set of Highland bagpipes of brass, silver mounted, and engraved overall with a thistle motif with sheepskin bag and tartan cover, said to have been part of an order for an Indian Maharajah, made by Thomas Glen, Edinburgh, c. 1860

Museum reference

K.2003.742

Collection

Culture

Object name

Highland bagpipe

Production information

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

Date

c. 1860

Materials

Brass, Silver, Sheepskin

Associations

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

Exhibitions

• Festival of Flanders

References

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

Festival of Flanders Exhibition Catalogue. 1968, No. 114b.

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