Small pipes bagpipe

Description

Set of chamber bagpipes, or small pipes, consisting of three drones in a common stock, made of ebony, rosewood and laburnum mounted with bone and ivory, inscribed on mounts to Colonel Montgomery, 1757 and probably made in Glasgow, early - mid 18th century

Museum reference

M.1965.266

Object name

Small pipes bagpipe

Production information

Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

Early - mid 18th century

Materials

Laburnum, Rosewood, Ebony, Ivory, Bone

Associations

British land forces: 1st Highland Battalion
Montgomery, Archibald, 1726 - 1796
British land forces: 77th Regiment of Foot
Seven Years War

Exhibitions

• Wild and Majestic Romantic Visions of Scotland (28 Jun 2019 - 10 Nov 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Cheape, Hugh. 'The Rosetta Stone of Scottish Piping'. Common Stock: The Journal of the Lowland and Border Pipers' Society. Vol. 4, No. 1 (1989), pp. 5 - 10. (Including discussion of Scottish small pipes)

On display

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