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Set of bagpipes, Lowland Scottish.
Technical description: African blackwood with ivory sole of diameter 50, and ivory mount between the neck and the tenon. Three drones set in a common stock, bass with three sections, and tenors each with two sections; African blackwood, ivory mounted and turned with full beading and combing decoration. Bellows connecting pipe or blowpipe in a stock set in the side of the bag; African blackwood turned with similar beading and combing. Sheepskin bag with green woollen cover.
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Early 19th Century - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Probably Scotland - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:422.112+422.22-62 Conical double-reed chanter + set of cylindrical single-reed drones; flexible air reservoir
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:422.112+422.22-62 Conical double-reed chanter + set of cylindrical single-reed drones; flexible air reservoir
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:Chanter 340; bass drone 630; tenor drones 340; bellows stock 117; blowpipe stock 60.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/49630