Oboe reed for bagpipes 1884.111.44 .1

Collection type: Object
Description: Oboe reed for bagpipes 1884.111.44 .1
Long description: Bagpipes, biniou, (ancien, or petit biniou) Bag: sewn with turned boxwood stocks and pipes. Blowpipe: turned wood. Chanter: lead mounts and wide conical bore. 7 h, 2 vent holes. Reed: double, of osier, on unsoldered brass staple. Bass drone: bourdon, 3 joints, first two joints have 0.7 cm bore, bell joint 1.1 cm at end = 2.5 cm at widest part of ovoid cavity and 0.9 cm at orifice. Reed is single, of elder. Usually played with the bombarde. [HLR]
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Bretagne
Cultural groups: French
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Possibly before 1879
Date collected: ?Prior to 1879
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Plant, Material Wood Plant, Process Turned, Process Stitched, Process Split
Dimensions: Length: max 67 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.111.44.3 PR no.: 88/ 9014 ?86/ 9014 Other numbers: 130.H.2
Research and responses: This object could have been collected by Pitt Rivers during his visits to Brittany in October - November 1878 and March - April 1879. He stayed in France during the intervening winter. [Bowden, 1991: 86-7[Chapman, 1981: 410-2] [Thompson, 1977: 61]

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