638 - Bagpipe in the style of the Great Highland Bagpipe, three drones, tartan cover, wood and metal

Bagpipe in the style of the Great Highland Bagpipe, three drones, tartan cover, wood and metal Wood, metal, leather, horn and textile, bagpipe in the design of the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe. Three drones of reddish-brown wood with ring turning and silver-coloured metal mounts, one of them longer, connected by a braided cord with tassels; blowpipe with ring turning and black mouthpiece; chanter of smooth wood with silver-coloured, plate-shaped foot. Bag with orange tartan cover with fringes. Good condition commensurate with age, not tested. L. 90 cm. The Great Highland Bagpipe is the bagpipe of Scotland, its melody pipe is called the chanter. Nine notes in a Mixolydian scale can be fingered on the chanter, beginners first practise on the practice chanter. The bag is usually covered with a tartan-patterned cover, the pipes were traditionally turned from grenadilla, the African blackwood. Through the Scottish regiments the wind instrument spread worldwide, today it shapes the sound of the pipe bands.