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Coloured portrait of Peter Henderson (1851 - 1903)

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Postcard of Coloured portrait of Peter Henderson (1851 - 1903).
000-000-579-577-C
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Coloured portrait of Peter Henderson (1851 - 1903)

Peter Henderson was a bagpipe maker of renown, piper and music collector and publisher. Peter came from Inverkeithing though his family was originally from Latheronwheel in Caithness. He founded his business typically taking 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.

The use of the Great Highland Bagpipe in the army, the development of civilian pipe bands and the growing significance of competition meant that the instrument began to take on a fixed and standard form and proportions, for example with its wide bored chanter and bass and two tenor drones. Skilled craftsmen, often wood turners by profession, began to make the instrument more or less to a fixed pattern and added their decoration of 'beading' and 'combing' which was adopted probably by the late 18th century and has remained unchanged since then.


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Online ID: 000-000-579-577-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0869: The Bagpipe Collection
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  Bagpipe Archive 3.11
Date: 1868 (date started his own business)
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Where: Scotland, Inverkeithing (place of birth)
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Description: Coloured portrait of Peter Henderson (1851 - 1903).
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