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Description: | The musette, a refined cousin of the bagpipe, achieved popularity in French aristocratic circles as part of their idealization of rural life. Typically made from costly ivory or ebony, it had silver keys and a bag enclosed in richly decorated silk or velvet. Its keywork was highly sophisticated for its date.
Ivory pipes, with fleur-de-lis engraved on the chanter stock. Shuttle drone (for four reeds). Chanter with seven silver keys and with an auxiliary closed chanter of flat shape attached to it, this also with six silver keys. Ivory bellows pipe, and also a vacant stock apparently for optional use of a mouth blow-pipe instead of the bellows. Bellows bag cover of silk velevet, originally salmon-pink, trimmed with silk ribbon rushed. Under this, an inner cover of dark green silk. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-198021 |
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