Highland bagpipe

Description

Set of half-size Highland bagpipes of cocus wood, bone and ivory mounted, with sheepskin bag and green woollen cover and tuning cord, by Alexander Glen, Edinburgh, c. 1840

Museum reference

K.2003.743

Collection

Culture

Object name

Highland bagpipe

Production information

Glen, Alexander, 1801 - 1873, Manufacturer
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

c. 1840

Materials

Cocus wood, Ivory, Bone, Wool

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. 20.

Festival of Flanders Exhibition Catalogue. 1968, No. 105.

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