Set of mouth-blown small pipes

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Set of mouth-blown small pipes, Scottish, 19th century. The three drones set in a common stock are described as bass, tenor and treble.

Small pipes are a small version of the bagpipe which has been made and played in Scotland but which has been most familiar in Britain in the form of the Northumbrian Pipes, a small, bellows-blown instrument with a keyed chanter and variable drone accompaniment. Both Northumbrian Pipes and the Scottish small pipes probably derive from a Continental bellows-blown bagpipe developed by wind-instrument makers in European cities in the 17th century for chamber music and operatic performance by professional musicians. Known as the musette in France, it became a fashionable instrument in the late 17th and 18th centuries for court and drawing room recital.

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• Online ID: 000-000-579-629-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Bagpipe Collection
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.1913.57
• Date: Early 19th century (date of manufacture)
  
• Material: Set of small pipes
  
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• What: Set of small pipes
  
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• Where: Scotland (place of manufacture)
  
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• Description: Set of small pipes with three drones set in a common stock.
  
• References:
  • Baines, Anthony,. Bagpipes. Occaisonal Papers on Technology 9, Oxford Press, 1973. 
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