Bagpipes.

Collection type: Object
Description: Bagpipes.
Geographical reference: Russia
Europe > Eastern Europe > Russia
Cultural groups: Mari
Person: Field collector Michel de Bernoff; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1909
Date collected: By 1909
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Bladder, Material Bird Bone, Material Animal Horn, Material Wax, Process Perforated, Process Tied
Dimensions: Width: max 210 mm, Length: max 440 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.34.119
Research and responses: Julian Goodacre, a bagpipe maker, and Michael York, an instrument maker, examined this object during the International Bagpipe Day at the Pitt Rivers Museum on 9 March 2013. Goodacre noted 'technically this could be termed a "bladder pipe", not a bagpipe, as the air pressure is generated by the elasticity of the bladder (the pressure on bagpipes is produced by squeezing your arm/ elbow). York pointed out the smallest of the two holes (mentioned in the old display label) appears to be a repair to a hole in the bladder (for Goodacre's and York's notes see the related documents file). [ZM 11/03/2013]
Associated publications: Published in Bagpipes by Anthony Baines (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Paper on Technology, 9, 1960) on pages 49-50, black and white photograph on Plate IV, No. 11 and illustrated in Figs. 19, 22. [MJD 31/08/2011]

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