Drawing of two figures, one playing the pipe

Drawing from the early 19th century of two figures, the one a piper, playing a bagpipe with a single drone. From a section of carved stone frieze in Roslin Chapel, Midlothian.

Roslin Chapel was founded as a Collegiate Church in the mid 15th century and its aisled choir is enriched with stone carving. This detail shows one of the earliest datable representations of the bagpipes in Scotland. This image is on display at the Museum of Piping in Glasgow.

The Museum of Piping has been assembled by the National Museums of Scotland from their collections of bagpipes and related material. The Museum describes and illustrates principally the Great Highland Bagpipe and some of its history. Drawing on the collections of the former Royal Scottish Museum, the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland and the Scottish United Services Museum, the displays also look at the richness and variety of the piping traditions of Britain and Europe. Open storage in drawers below the display cases adds more examples and information to the sequence of instruments in the exhibition.

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