Bagpipe; pìob mhór; Great Highland bagpipe

Pìob mhór or Great Highland bagpipe. The wooden conical chanter has seven finger holes and one thumbhole. It terminates in an ivory sole. There are two tenor drones and one bass drone, the tenor drones are in two joints, the bass drone in three. All three drones have combed decoration. There are nickel silver ferrules at the bell rims of the drones, at the lower sockets of their top joints and at the socket of the middle joint of the bass drone. There is a bone ferrule on the stock of one tenor drone and the stock of the blowpipe. The leather bag, probably of sheep skin, is covered in brushed cotton in a faded orange and black tartan. The bag has separate stocks for each of the pipes. The chanter is stamped: 'HENDERSON/GLASGOW'.