Chabrette

Boxwood pipes patterned with red-brown spots of stain; bone, horn and pewter mounts; bag with blue velvet cover with fringe. Rectangular stock decorated with pewter and small inset mirrors holds conical chanter and tenor drone; chanter has 6 finger holes, one thumb hole, one open-standing key of iron beneath fontanelle of bone and 2 vent holes in bell. Round stock holds bass drone of which upper section has 3 parallel bores joined internally; separate tuning tenon joins it to lower section, which is possibly, like blowpipe, not original.