Set of Scottish small pipes or bellows bagpipes

Set of bellows pipes or Scottish small pipes. These are very similar to the Northumbrian pipes, for example in the drone harmony in which the intermediate drone is tuned to a fifth between the other two. The drone stock is marked 'NAUGHTAN / ABD'. The pipes are the work of John Naughtan who was a turner and musical instrument maker in Aberdeen between 1824 and 1842.

Small pipes are a small version of the bagpipe which has been made and played in Scotland but which has been most familiar in Britain in the form of the Northumbrian Pipes, a small, bellows-blown instrument with a keyed chanter and variable drone accompaniment.

Both Northumbrian Pipes and the Scottish small pipes probably derive from a Continental bellows-blown bagpipe developed by wind-instrument makers in European cities in the 17th century for chamber music and operatic performance by professional musicians. Known as the musette in France, it became a fashionable instrument in the late 17th and 18th centuries for court and drawing room recital.

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