Lowland bagpipe reed. Leather bag covered with green baize [.1] with two drones. A pair of arm bellows [.2] for inflation through 'mouthpiece' [.3]. The chanter [.5] and a further drone [.6] are detached. The parts associated with this object are numbered [1890.7.2 .1], [.2], [.3], [.4], [.5], [.6], [.7], [.8]. [RR 22/1/2020]

Collection type: Object
Description: Lowland bagpipe reed. Leather bag covered with green baize [.1] with two drones. A pair of arm bellows [.2] for inflation through 'mouthpiece' [.3]. The chanter [.5] and a further drone [.6] are detached. The parts associated with this object are numbered [1890.7.2 .1], [.2], [.3], [.4], [.5], [.6], [.7], [.8]. [RR 22/1/2020]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Scotland Aberdeen
Cultural groups: Scottish
Person: Field collector Edward Burnett Tylor; PRM source Edward Burnett Tylor
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1890
Date collected: By 1890
Acquisition information: Donated: 01/1890
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Box Wood Plant, Material Textile, Material Walrus Ivory Tooth Animal, Process Perforated, Process Stitched, Process Covered, Process Woven
Dimensions: Diameter: max 15 mm, Length: max 90 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1890.7.2.4
Associated publications: Published in Bagpipes by Anthony Baines (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Paper on Technology, 9, 1960) on page 117, black and white photograph on Plate X, No. 29 and illustrated in Fig. 70. [MJD 31/08/2011]

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