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Reel pipe

Bagpipe, bellows-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: 4 drones in 1 stock)

Identical types: 7

Bellows-blown; Since 1870; According to Sam Grier "frequently played by “Tinkers” and the like, and could have indeed been invented by them"; According to McCandless "a form of Lowland pipe"; NB: ➺ Chamber pipe.

2 drones (A/B, a/b) and 2 regulators (both b, d¹, e¹, f¹, g¹, a¹).
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.


Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.114.

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.77.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.139.

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.30 (»Baines).

McCandless, Brian: Bagpipe names – A very long list. In: Jl. North American Assoc. of Lowland and Border Pipers 6 (Elkton (MD), 1993), p.51 (»Grier).

Web

theotherpipers.org (Grier, p.11)
theotherpipers.org (McCandless)