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View full screenSet of Highland bagpipes or 'Lovat Reel Pipes', bass and tenor drones only, of laburnum decorated with combing in nine sets of rings and bone mounts, sheepskin bag has a green woollen bag cover Scottish, late 18th or early 19th century
K.2003.772
Scotland, Northern Europe
Late 18th - early 19th century
Laburnum, Bone, Sheepskin, Wool
Collector: J. and R. Glen
Ross, Andrew, Sr, 1947 - 1977 (fl.)
Glen and Ross Collection
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe
Cheape, Hugh. A Checklist of Bagpipes in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. Edinburgh: Reid School of Music, 1983, p. 25.
Baines, Anthony. "Bagpipes". Occasional Paper on Technology 9, Oxford University Press, 1973.