Set of Highland bagpipes with replacement chanter

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Set of Highland bagpipes, possibly of ebony, mounted with bone and horn, 18th century, with a replacement chanter made by Peter Henderson of Glasgow in the late 19th century. The drones from this set of pipes may originally have been set in a common stock in a bellows-blown bagpipe. They have been adapted or 'rebuilt' in separate stocks with a new chanter, probably by Peter Henderson in the 1880s. Collected by Dr Duncan Fraser.

Peter Henderson (1851 - 1903) was a successful bagpipe maker, a pipe music collector and publisher. He came from Inverkeithing though his family was originally from Latheronwheel in Caithness.

He took over the bagpipe-making shop in Glasgow of Robert MacKinnon who had earlier taken over the premises of Donald Macphee. Henderson had set up business in 1868, was himself a very good piper and became Pipe Major of the Glasgow Volunteers. His bagpipes have always had a very high reputation.

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• Online ID: 000-000-579-534-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Bagpipe Collection
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1947.98
• Date: 1880s (date of rebuilding of drones)
  18th century (date of manufacture for bagpipes)
  Late 19th century (date of manufacture for replacement chanter)
  
• Material: Bone and horn
  Highland bagpipe
  
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• What: Highland bagpipe
  
• Subject:
• Who: Peter Henderson (manufacturer of replacement chanter)
  The Museum of Piping, Glasgow (place of display)
  
• Where: Scotland, Glasgow (place of manufacture for replacement chanter)
  
• Event:
• Description: Set of Highland bagpipes mounted with bone and horn.
  
• References:
  • Baines, Anthony,. Bagpipes. Occasional Paper on Technology 9, Oxford University Press, 1973. 
  • Campbell, Jeannie,. Highland Bagpipe Makers. Magnus Orr Publishing, 2001.
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