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Description: | Uilleann or Irish Union pipes, bellows-blown bagpipes with single and double reeds. The chanter stamped: KENNA; with a shamrock device above.The bellows stamped COYNE/DUBLIN. The leather bag has a green velvet cover. Three stocks, for blowpipe, chanter, drones and regulators. Each stock has a brass ferrule at rim. Stocks and pipes probably of pearwood. The chanter has seven open finger holes, thumbhole and six block-mounted metal keys with square covers. The instrument appears to have been made for a left handed player, but repositioning of a finger hole suggests later adaptation for a right handed player. Metal end cap, closed at bottom but with four circular vent holes around sides. Treble, tenor and bass drone pipes, the longest with three wooden tubes joined by brass U bends. The tenor and bass regulators each with five block-mounted keys with bevelled square covers. The bellows of leather with wooden boards, connected by a brass hinge. The upper board with stringing around the edge and a raised circular ivory bushed air intake, also inlaid in marquetry with a shell. Green ribbon arm belt hangs from a loop at lower end of upper board. Three reeds survive inside the bag, two double, one single. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | union pipes wood metal vegetable fibre ivory uilleann pipes leather textile copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12699 |
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