Piob Mor or Great Pipe

Historic examples of the Great Highland Bagpipe, including the 'Glen Pipes' (now in the collections of the National Museums of Scotland, H.LT 28), the MacIntyre pipes, and the Black Chanter of Clan Chattam (now in the collection of the Clan Macpherson Museum, Newtonmore). Drawn by Mr C.N. MacIntyre North, a London architect who compiled a folio collection in the late 19th century published under the Gaelic title of Leabhar Comunn nam fior Ghael, or the 'Book of the Club of True Highlanders'.

Mr MacIntyre North was an enthusiastic expatriate Scot who made a special study of the Scottish Gaelic antiquities and arts. He founded an organisation in London called 'The Club of True Highlanders' which evoked the memory of an organisation founded by MacDonnell of Glengary in the 1820s.

In its origins, the Highland bagpipe in common with other European and World bagpipes is a prehistoric wind instrument. Its main elements are the melody pipe or 'chanter' on which the music is played with the fingers (usually on a scale of nine notes) and with an accompanying fixed note or chordal accompaniment from the drone or drones, all of which are held in stocks tied into an animal skin bag (now coming to be replaced by synthetic materials). The player blows into the bag to supply a constant pressure and flow of air onto the reeds which are set into the chanter and drones and which make the sound. The air flow is controlled by a simple non-return valve on the blowstick.

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