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Uilleann or Irish union pipes, bellows-blown bagpipe with single and double reeds. The stocks and pipes are probably of pearwood. The narrow conical chanter has seven fingerholes, a thumbhole and six block-mounted metal keys with square covers. The instrument appears to have been made for a left handed player, but the repositioning of a fingerhole suggests later adaptation for a right handed player. Metal end cap, closed at the base but with four circular vent holes around the sides. Cylindrical treble, tenor and bass drone pipes, the longest with three wooden tubes joined by brass U bends. The conical tenor and bass regulators each have five block-mounted keys with bevelled square covers. Three stocks, for chanter, drones and regulators, and blowpipe. Each stock has a brass ferrule at the rim. The leather bag has a green velvet cover. Three reeds survive inside the bag, two double, one single. The bellows are of leather with wooden boards, connected by a brass hinge. The upper board has stringing around the edge and a raised circular ivory bushed air intake, also inlaid in marquetry with a shell. A green ribbon arm strap hangs from a loop at the lower end of the upper board. The chanter is stamped: 'KENNA' with a shamrock device above.The bellows are stamped 'COYNE/DUBLIN'.

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  • Materials:leather, vegetable fibre, metal, textile, ivory, copper alloy, wood
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:422.122-7+422.22-62
  • Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
  • Measurements:overall: 1290 x 400 x 80 mm