Small pipes bagpipe

Description

Set of Northumbrian small pipes with a stitched leather bag inside a red baize bag trimmed with red braid, the drones, stocks and chanter of ivory, the latter of the plain open type and attached to the blowpipe is a small keyhole shaped bellows, 18th - early 19th century

Museum reference

H.LT 62

Collection

Culture

Object name

Small pipes bagpipe

Date

18th - early 19th century

Materials

Leather, Baize, Ivory, Metal, Mahogany, Satinwood

Associations

Improver: Peacock, John, 1750 (fl.)
Reid, Robert, 1784 - 1837
Skeoch Cumming Collection

References

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