Set of border bagpipes with drones in a common stock.

Technical description: The bagpipe is complete with all parts present and is accompanied by a set of bellows. All the wooden parts are of the same as yet unidentified hardwood of a dark golden-brown colour and with a good undisturbed patination. The mounts are of brass and bone. The three drones comprise bass and tenor drones and a baritone drone playing at the fifth, an arrangement normally associated with the Northumbrian side of the English/Scottish border. The bass drone is in three joints and the other two in two joints. The present bag is not of the highest order of workmanship and is almost certainly a later replacement. The present green baize outer bag with green fringed is old but is probably not original. The bellows have flat mahogany boards. There are no metal hinge mounts. There are two pairs of holes for the leather hinge laces. Both the arm and lace belts run through brass loops. The valve bush is of bone. There is no way of determining whether these bellows have always accompanied this particular set but their early style means that this is at least a reasonable possibility.