Lowland bagpipe

Description

Set of bellows-blown Lowland bagpipes with chanter, bass and tenor drones held in a common stock, cocus wood, ivory-mounted, owned by Malcolm Macpherson, chanter made by Duncan McDougall, Aberfeldy, c. 1880

Museum reference

H.1995.790

Collection

Culture

Object name

Lowland bagpipe

Production information

McDougall, Duncan, 1837 - 1898, Manufacturer of chanter
Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

c. 1880

Materials

Cocus wood, Ivory

Associations

Previous owner: Macpherson, Malcolm, 1833 - 1898

References

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

Campbell, Jeannie. Highland Bagpipe Makers. Magnus Orr Publishing, 2001.

Macpherson, Angus. 'A Highlander Looks Back'. Oban Times, 1955.

Langwill, Lyndsay. 'An Index of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers'. Edinburgh (various editions).

‘Notes on Duncan MacDougall, Aberfeldy’, NMS MS Archive 1976/8.

Alexander MacAulay, The Art and History of the MacDougalls of Aberfeldy, in The Piping Times VOl. 16, Nos 4 and 5 (1964)

John M. McPherson, Gaelic and English Poems, Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair (no date), pp 12-13

Angus MacPherson, A Highlander looks back, Oban Times (no date)