Highland bagpipe

Description

Set 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

Museum reference

K.2003.772

Collection

Culture

Object name

Highland bagpipe

Production information

Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

Late 18th - early 19th century

Materials

Laburnum, Bone, Sheepskin, Wool

Associations

Collector: J. and R. Glen
Ross, Andrew, Sr, 1947 - 1977 (fl.)
Glen and Ross Collection
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

References

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.