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French piper playing for local festival

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Central France, early 20th century

Postcard of French piper playing for local festival.
000-000-579-613-C
© National Museums Scotland

French piper playing for local festival

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: 0869: 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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