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Bagpipe (cornemuse)
Gaillard (French)
probably late 19th century
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Ivory, leather, cloth
Dimensions
Chanter length (without reed) 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection
Accession Number17.1935
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Aerophones
DescriptionChanter and one drone, both with cylindrical bore. Leather bag with brocaded silk, gilt braid, and fringe. Two stocks of ivory. Ivory blow- pipe with a leather flap which serves as a stop-valve for air. The ivory cap serves as an air-chamber for the chanter and has an auxiliary cap for the drone connected with it; both inserted in one stock. A chanter with bell, both of ivory, seven holes in the front (the lowest one consists of two small holes for half-stopping), a thumb-hole in the rear. The drone has a small decorative bell.
InscriptionsIn ink (?) on leather bag: Gaillard; stamped on chanter cap: P. G.
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)