Great Irish Pipe
Bagpipe, bellows-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: 7 drones in 1 stock)
In Fraser described as "This pipe is made of ebony and ivory with brass mountings (➺ photo [from Fraser]), and was said to be a gift from the late Queen Victoria to one Ferguson, a blind piper in Dublin"; NB; In Leydi erroneously called (and incorrectly spelt) "Uillean pipe".
Type with a 4th regulator, with 4 keys (G, A, B, c): ➺ Double-bass regulator.
Fraser, Alexander Duncan: Some reminiscences and the bagpipe. Edinburgh, 1907 (➺ plate between p.40-41).
O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.222.
Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.84 (Uillean pipe).
