Double reed pipes.

Collection type: Object
Description: Double reed pipes.
Long description: Double reed pipes resembling the Anglesea hornpipe. Twin pipes with 5 fingerholes in each, set in channel made by a larger reed split in half; curved bell mouth of cow horn with serrated edge. At upper end a small gourd air chamber and mouthpiece combined encloses two sounding reeds of clarinet type, as in arghool and zummarah.
Geographical reference: Greece
Europe > Southern Europe > Greece
Cultural groups: Greek
Person: Field collector James Theodore Bent; PRM source James Theodore Bent
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1903
Date collected: By 1903
Acquisition information: Donated: 1888
Materials and processes: Material Reed Plant, Material Animal Horn, Material Gourd Plant, Process Perforated, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length 310 mm, Length 125 mm pipes
Object numbers: Accession number: 1903.130.21
Research and responses: For an article about Theodore and Mabel Bent see http://tambent.com/2024/07/03/bagpipes-tsabounes-on-clean-monday-kathara-deftera-in-the-village-of-dio-choria-tinos-the-cyclades-greece/
Associated publications: BALFOUR, ' THE BRITISH PIBCORN', JAI nov 1890, Figs. 1-4. Published in Bagpipes by Anthony Baines (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Paper on Technology, 9, 1960) on page 45 and black and white photograph on Plate III, No. 9. [MJD 31/08/2011]

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