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Lowland pipes / Lowlandpipe / Lowland bagpipe / Lowland small-pipe(s)

Bagpipe, bellows-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: 3 drones in 1 stock)

Identical types: 7

Differs, according to Sachs, only from the Highland bagpipe, because it is provided with bellows (which were introduced in the 18th century); Also smaller than the Highland bagpipe; In Podnos, in Index I (Bagpipe names), mentioned with its full name, but on p.30 oddly called "pipe" only; NB¹: = (Northumbrian) Border pipes; NB²: According to Ritson, "they were probably introduced out of England, in which country this ſpecies of bagpipe is a very ancient, as it was was [sic] once a very common inſtrument"; NB²: ➺ Ritson's remark in Highland pipe(s); NB4: When the plural forms are used to refer to 1 instrument only, they are actually pluralia tantum.

Chanter + drones: same pitch [and shape?] as a Highland bagpipe.

Hill pipe, Lowland small-pipe


Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile] (Lowland pipes).

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979 (Lowland bagpipe), p.70, 78*, 82-83.

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937 (Lowlandpipe), p.371, 374.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964) (Lowland pipe), p.139, 141 (also Lowland small-pipe).

Habenicht, Gottfried: Der Egerländer Dudelsack. In: Jb. f. ostdeutsche Volkskunde 20 (Marburg, 1977), p.240, note 25 [➺ p.216] (Lowland small-pipes).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.30 (pipe [sic]), ➺ p.115 [Index I] (Lowland pipe).

Ritson, Joseph: A historical essay on Scotish [sic] song, I (London, MDCCXIV [1714]) & II (London, MDCCXCIV [1794]), p.cxiv (lowland pipes).

Web

northumbrianpipers.org (= Border pipes).
Archive.org (Ritson [Find lowland pipes: ➺ Page n109 (= p.cxiv): NB: ➺ "was was" [sic]]