Bagpipe: Museum Object and Cultural History
Bagpipe: date made: 1900-1935. Object Name: bagpipe. Physical Description: wood (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This bagpipe was made by an unknown maker in Eastern Europe, around 1900-1935. It is a bellows blown, with a sheepskin bag with red and blue plaid cover. The stocks and pipes are made of light and dark wood with bone ferrules and pewter inlay. The bass drone has animal horn bell. The chanter has four passages: small drone vents to the rear where it can be stopped with the thumb, largest drone vents through a shoe at the end of the chanter and has an adjusting peg near its end, another drone vents on the front side and can be stopped by the lowest finger, the chanter passage has 4 fingerholes and a vent which can be stopped by the middle finger of the lower hand. There are cane reeds on chanter and drones.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1900-1935
- Object Name: bagpipe
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Physical Description: pewter (overall material)
- Physical Description: sheepskin (overall material)
- Physical Description: fabric (overall material)
- place made: Eastern Europe
- ID Number: MI.382522
- accession number: 161412
- catalog number: 382522
- Credit Line: Bequest of Abraham George Gruich
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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