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Set of Scottish Lowland bellows-blown bagpipes

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Scottish, early 19th century

Postcard of Set of Scottish Lowland bellows-blown bagpipes.
000-000-579-525-C
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Set of Scottish Lowland bellows-blown bagpipes

Set of Scottish Lowland bellows bagpipes with three drones in stock, bone and brass mounts, bellows of wood and leather and a black velvet bag cover. Scottish, early 19th century. Collected by Dr Duncan Fraser.

The Lowland pipes, often called the Border bagpipe, seemed to have become a distinctive instrument by the 18th century. It has a chanter, usually slightly smaller than the Highland bagpipe chanter, and three drones - two tenors and a bass set in a common stock - and is bellows blown. It sounded and tuned as the Great Highland bagpipe but would not have produced such a strident or carrying sound.

Dr Alexander Duncan Fraser MD (1849-1920), born in Lochgilphead of an Inverness-shire family, graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1874 and subsequently practised in Northumberland, Skye and Falkirk. His lifelong hobby was playing the pipes, studying the history of the bagpipe and its music, and collecting ancient and modern bagpipes 'of all nations'. In 1906 he published a book, Some Reminiscences and the Bagpipe, in which many of the instruments in his collection were illustrated. Some of his collection was donated to the Royal Scottish Museum in 1947.


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Online ID: 000-000-579-525-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0869: The Bagpipe Collection
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1947.100 (1)
Date: Early 19th century (date of manufacture)
Material: Bone, brass, leather, velvet and wood
Dimensions: 838 mm L
What: Bellows bagpipes
Subject:
Who: Dr Duncan Fraser (collector)
The Museum of Piping, Glasgow (place of display)
Where: Scotland (place of manufacture)
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Description: Set of Scottish Lowland bellows bagpipes with bone and brass mounts, leather and wood bellows and a velvet bag cover.
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