Tenor drone

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Tenor drone of wood from a set of small pipes. Made in two sections with spool moulded decoration and combed lines grouped in threes. It is mounted with a brass ferule and horn drone top cap.

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: 000-000-579-748-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Bagpipe Collection
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.LT 82
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• Material: Wood, brass and horn
  
• Dimensions: 351 mm L
  
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• Description: Tenor drone of wood with brass ferule and horn drone top cap.
  
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  • Baines, Anthony,. Bagpipes. Occasional Paper on Technology 9, Oxford University Press, 1973. 
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