McDonald Lowland Bagpipe
date: label: date made
content: 1810 - 1840
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This bagpipe was made by Donald McDonald in Edinburgh, Scotland, around 1810-1840. The bellows made by Robert Reid are a later addition. It is a lowland bagpipe, bellows blown, with a sewn leather bag with a green fabric cover, and ebony stocks and pipes with ivory ferrules. The cylindrical chanter in a separate stock has double reed, seven fingerholes and thumbhole. Three drones with cane reeds in main stock. The bagpipe is stamped:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>McDONALD<br>EDIN</p>
label: Description
content: <p.(and on bellows:)</p>
label: Description
content: <p>R. REID</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: Scotland, Edinburgh
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.65.0650
label: accession number
content: 1991.0406
label: catalog number
content: 65.0650
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bagpipe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cane (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: chanter: 21.3 cm; 8 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: drone (1): 15.2 cm; 5 31/32 in
label: Measurements
content: drone (2): 21.3 cm; 8 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: drone (3): 3.13 cm; 1 7/32 in
label: Measurements
content: bellows: 22.2 cm x 12.4 cm; 8 3/4 in x 4 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: bag (from bottom to chanter stock): 61 cm; 24 1/32 in