Bagpipe
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1935
notes: label: Description
content: This bagpipe was made by an unknown maker in Eastern Europe, around 1900-1935. It is a bellows blown bagpipe, with a sheepskin bag with a green plaid cover. The stocks and pipes are made of dark and light wood inlaid with pewter. The bass drone has blackened ivory ferrules and is lengthened by 3 parallel pipes interconnected through blocks at either end. There are 2 alternate chanters. The first chanter has 5 fingerholes and a vent together with a drone passage with 1 fingerhole and communication to a large flat U-shaped bell. The second chanter has 4 passages: small drone venting to the rear where it can be stopped with the thumb, largest drone vents through a metal 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, chanter passage has four fingerholes and a vent which can be stopped by the middle finger of the lower hand. There are cane reeds on chanters and drones. The instrument has a protective cover for reeds of chanter when not in use.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Eastern Europe
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Abraham George Gruich
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.382520
label: accession number
content: 161412
label: catalog number
content: 382520
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bagpipe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: sheepskin (overall material)