French piper playing for local festival

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Piper playing the cabrette or bellows-blown bagpipe at a festival in Central France. Seated on the top of a barrel, he was very well placed to beat out the rhythm of the music with his wooden soled clogs.

Central France is an area of Europe with a particularly rich piping tradition. The piper's instrument is the local type of bagpipe or cabrette with goatskin bag and bellows. It has chanter and small drone fixed together in the same stock. This type of bagpipe may have been 'invented' in the late 18th century and was probably influenced by the fine instruments of the musette type being made in Paris in the 18th century. The style and craftsmanship of these instruments mad and played in the neighbouring provinces of Limousin and Auvergne seem to echo the taste for the earlier musette and cornemuse specially made in professional ateliers for performance in courtly and noble circles.

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• Online ID: 000-000-579-613-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Bagpipe Collection
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  Bagpipe Archive 4.19
• Date: 18th century (date of event)
  
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• Where: France (depicted)
  
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• Description: French piper playing for local festival.
  
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  • Cheape, Hugh,. The Book of the Bagpipe. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1999.
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