Lowland bagpipe

Description

Set of Lowland bagpipes, bellows-blown, with two tenor drones and a bass drone mounted in a single stock, would have been made in one of the Lowland burghs of Scotland, late 18th or early 19th century

Museum reference

H.LT 55

Collection

Culture

Object name

Lowland bagpipe

Production information

Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

Late 18th - early 19th century

Associations

Skeoch Cumming Collection

References

Baines, Anthony, Bagpipes. Occasional Paper on Technology 9, Oxford University Press, 1973.

Cheape, Hugh, The Book of the Bagpipe, Appletree Press, 1999, pp. 55 - 61.