Tenor drone for a set of Small pipes

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Tenor drone from a set of small pipes, mounted with a brass ferrule and a bone drone top cap decorated with dot and circle design. From Gillanders and Macleod, Forfar, 1977.

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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• Online ID: 000-000-579-749-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Bagpipe Collection
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.LT 85
• Date: 1977 (date of manufacture)
  
• Material: Brass and bone
  
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• Who: Gillanders and Macleod (bagpipe makers)
  
• Where: Scotland, Forfar (place of manufacture)
  
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• Description: Tenor drone for a set of Small pipes mounted with a brass ferrule and a bone drone top cap.
  
• References:
  • Baines, Anthony,. Bagpipes. Occasional Paper on Technology 9, Oxford University Press, 1973. 
  • Campbell, Jeannie,. Highland Bagpipe Makers. Magnus Orr Publishing, 2001.
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