Unknown #16

Sometimes I have to take what I’m given. Please, if you’re going to send me pictures, back away and let me see the bagpipe. I work off of profiles first. This particular bagpipe appears to be made of ebony with bone mounts. The beads are fairly flat. The combing is shallow with eight teeth standing. Rings and ferrules do not have raised beads. They each have two scribe lines cut into them. Mounts have a cut-bead. Stocks are straight-sides with a small bead below the tie-in channel and a flat bottom. Everything points to Edinburgh. If I had to guess, I think they’re no earlier than 1850 and no later than 1900.