Top piece
stock for the chanter(s)
Chanter stock; Usually a tube with a narrower branch at a downward angle of ca. 50-60° near its top; The joint is tied into the bag; The main tube, which has a decorative mount to close its top, lodges the chanter.
Made of metal, silver soldered; Main tube: ca. 180 mm, Ø ca. 20 mm; The joint (ca. 70 mm, Ø ca. 10 mm) sits at a distance of ca. 40 mm from the top of the main tube.
Garvin, Wilbert: The Irish bagpipes: their construction and maintenance [Belfast 1978, Blackstaff Press]. Foreword by Breandán Breathnach. Kells, 1988 (2), p.2.