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Bagpipe (Northumbrian pipes)
Probably by: James Reid (English, 1813–1874)
mid-19th century
Object Place: North Shields, England
Medium/Technique
Ivory, cocuswood, silver, oak, leather, cloth
Dimensions
Chanter length (without reed) 27.8 cm (10 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection
Accession Number17.1933
CollectionsEurope, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Aerophones
DescriptionChanter and four drones. Leather bag covered with dark blue velvet. Three stocks, silver tips. Drones of ivory richly embellished with silver tips and long joint tubes of silver; inverted conoidal bores with very small taper and stopped at the ends; single reeds. Chanter of ebony, cylindrical bore, stopped at the lower end; seven fingerholes in the front, a thumbhole in the rear; seven silver keys mounted on knobs.
Cocuswood chanter pipes with silver keys, ivory drone pipes with silver mounts; bag covered with cotton velveteen with pleated silk trim.
Cocuswood chanter pipes with silver keys, ivory drone pipes with silver mounts; bag covered with cotton velveteen with pleated silk trim.
ProvenanceFrancis W. Galpin (1858-1945), Hatfield Regis, England; 1916, sold by Francis W. Galpin to William Lindsey (1858-1922), Boston, Massachusetts; 1916, gift of William Lindsey, in memory of his daughter, Leslie Lindsey Mason, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 5, 1916)
Sir John Fenwick's "The Flower Among Them," 1700s
Traditional
Performed by Neal Macmillan on Northumbrian smallpipes, made by Colin Ross, Whitley Bay, England, about 2000