Lowland bagpipe

Description

Set of Lowland pipes of ivory, silver mounted, having three drones set in stock, a chanter with one key and black velvet bag, Scottish

Museum reference

A.1947.102

Collection

Culture

Object name

Lowland bagpipe

Production information

Scotland, Northern Europe

Materials

Ivory, Silver, Velvet

Associations

Collector: Fraser, Alexander Duncan, Dr, 1849 - 1920

References

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

Goodacre, Julian. ‘A set of ivory small pipes’, in Common Stock. The Journal of the Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society Vol. 5 No. 1 (1990), 8-9.