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, 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Eastern Europe
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: Bequest of Abraham George Gruich
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.382522
label: accession number
content: 161412
label: catalog number
content: 382522
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)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)