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View full screenBagpipe chanter for the Union pipes of cocus wood with ivory mounts on the tenon and foot, by Donald MacDonald, Castlehill, Edinburgh, late 18th or early 19th century
K.2003.716
MacDonald, Donald, 1767 - 1840, Manufacturer
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe
Late 18th - early 19th century
Cocus and ivory
Collector: J. and R. Glen
Ross, Andrew, Sr, 1947 - 1977 (fl.)
Glen and Ross Collection
Cheape, Hugh. A Checklist of Bagpipes in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. Edinburgh: Reid School of Music, 1983, p. 12.
Baines, Anthony. "Bagpipes". Occasional Paper on Technology 9, Oxford University Press, 1973.
Campbell, Jeannie. Highland Bagpipe Makers. Magnus Orr Publishing, 2001.