English Lowland Bagpipe
date: label: Date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: This bagpipe was made by an unknown maker, in England, 19th century. It is a Lowland bagpipe, bellows blown, with a sewn bag covered with black velvet. It has grenadilla stocks and pipes with brass ferrules and keys and ivory tips, a chanter with seven fingerholes, one thumbhole, and seven keys. The pipes have cylindrical bores, stopped at lower end, with double reed, drones have cane reeds.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
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 The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (through Dr. Robert H. Dyson)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.65.0645
label: accession number
content: 1991.0406
label: catalog number
content: 65.0645
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bagpipe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: grenadilla (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)