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Ivory pipes, with fleur-de-lys engraved on the chanter stock. Shuttle drone (for four reeds). Chanter with seven silver keys and with an auxiliary closed chanter (petit chalumeau) od flat shape attached to it, this also with six silver keys. Ivory bellows pipe, and also a vacant stock apparently for optional use of mouth blow-pipe instead of the bellows. Bellows bag cover of silk velvet, originally salmon-pink, trimmed with silk ribbon ruched. Under this, an inner cover of dark green silk. ' - Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard insturments. (London, 1998), p. 102.

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  • Materials:Turned and engraved ivory, silk velvet bag with silk ribbon fringe and silk braid, silver keys
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  • Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Measurements:Length: 19 cm main chanter, Length: 10.7 cm auxiliar chanter, Length: 15 cm shuttle drone