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Set of Highland bagpipes.
Technical description: Chanter; Bass drone with three sections; two tenor drones with two sections each. Laburnum, polished and turned with simple combing decoration, mounted with horn.Sheepskin bag and plain green wool cover with fringes and green tuning cord. This set of pipes has been made in an imaginatively archaic style with native materials, the drone tops turned with pronounced bells and the chanter given a shawm-like appearance.
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Circa 1880 - Maker:
A.J. Ross [J. and R. Glen]. - 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 363; bass drone 706; two tenor drones each 355.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/14974