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Bass bar

mounting-bracket of the Separator (Uilleann pipes)

No identical types known (yet).
Uilleann pipe(s)

Mounting-bracket, silver soldered to the flank of the outer tube of the Separator; A hole is drilled through both, at the level where the inner tube of the Separator narrows, allowing air supply from the main stock.

Curved to the same diameter as the outside of the main stock, with mounting-holes for the screws.

Sources

Breathnach, Breandán: The Irish pipes. In: The bagpipes in Europe, 1 (1976), p.4.

Garvin, Wilbert: The Irish bagpipes: their construction and maintenance [Belfast 1978, Blackstaff Press]. Foreword by Breandán Breathnach. Kells, 1988 (2), p.20.