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Set of Highland bagpipes, half-size.
Technical description: With chanter and bass and tenor drones; Cocus wood, mounted with an ivory sole piece and bulb between the neck and the tenon. The chanter does not match the chanter stock precisely. Bass drone with three sections; tenor drones each with two sections. Cocus wood turned with full beading and combing decoration, with bone and ivory mounts; mouthpiece of ebonite. Green woollen cover on sheepskin bag trimmed with lighter green fringes, and green tuning cord. Repair History: Mouthpiece of ebonite possibly a replacement.
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Circa 1840 - Maker:
Glen, Alexander - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Edinburgh/City of Edinburgh/Scotland - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:422.112+422.122-71+422.22-62 Single oboes with conical bore combined with a set of oboes with conical bore with keys and a set of reedpipes with single reeds with flexible air reservoir
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:422.112+422.122-71+422.22-62 Single oboes with conical bore combined with a set of oboes with conical bore with keys and a set of reedpipes with single reeds with flexible air reservoir
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:Chanter 353; bass drone 655; tenor drone 325; blowpipe: 295.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16195