Bagpipe: Museum Object and Cultural History
Bagpipe: date made: 1949. Object Name: bagpipe. Physical Description: rosewood (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This bagpipe was made by Jakub Konrady, in Czechoslovakia, in 1949. It is a bellows blown bagpipe, with a bag of animal fur (goat?). There is a facsimile of an animal head at neck of bag. The stocks and pipes are made of rosewood with brass ferrules. The drone and chanter terminate in animal horns with large open ends of brass. The chanter has 7 fingerholes, 1 thumbhole, a slightly conical bore, and single beating reed mounted on brass tube. The bagpipe has a Konrady inscription.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1949
- Object Name: bagpipe
- Physical Description: rosewood (overall material)
- Physical Description: brass (overall material)
- Physical Description: animal skin (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 30 in x 12 in x 3 in; 76.2 cm x 30.48 cm x 7.62 cm
- place made: Czechoslovakia
- ID Number: MI.62.200
- accession number: 239343
- catalog number: 62.200
- Credit Line: Gift of Barbara Krader
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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