Bagpipe
date: label: date made
content: 1949
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Czechoslovakia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Barbara Krader
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.62.200
label: accession number
content: 239343
label: catalog number
content: 62.200
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bagpipe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rosewood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: animal skin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 12 in x 3 in; 76.2 cm x 30.48 cm x 7.62 cm