Bagpipe Collection

Piper Daniel Laidlaw V. C
Piper Laidlaw won the V.C. at Loos (World War I) on 25th September 1915: During the worst of the bombardment, seeing that his company was somewhat shaken from the effects of gas

A group of Cameron Highlanders
A group of Queens Own Cameron Highlanders

Pipe Major of The Scots Guards in full ceremonial dress. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Highland Bagpipe Player
Ross : Victorias highland piper

Australian Ladies Pipe Band - World Tour - souvenir of the visit of the band under Drum-Major William Darwin F.R.G.S. and Pipe-Major Jessie Young

WW1 - Four Gurkha Bagpipe Pipers - British Indian Army forces on the Western Front in France. Date: 1915

Early medieval English peasants including a Bagpipe player. 12th century

Bagpipe lesson, Scotland

Going with the Wind
Cartoon, punning on the title of the recently released film Gone with the Wind'. Date: 1940

Comic postcard, Man in a restaurant with haggis Date: 20th century

Tree carnation varieties, Dianthus caryophyllus: Ariadne 1, Beauty 2, Garibaldi 3, Perfection 4, Queen of Whites 5, Queen of Yellows 6

English tourists see Scots dancing to bagpipe music on the bank of the Caledonian Canal from Fort William to Inverness, Scotland. Doctor Prosody meets a highland wedding on the Calidonian Canal

Medieval men inflating pig bladders, playing
Medieval men inflating pig bladders (for bagpipes?), playing mandolins and pipes. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse), Librairie Hachette

Ancient musical instruments including bellows
Foot instrument used by a faun in a Florentine gallery 1, bellows from a relief in the Pallavicini Gardens 2, bagpipe from an ancient basrelief 3, tambourine, castanets and tibia from Greek vases 4

Dutch rustic scene with music and celebration

Musicians seated on barrels, Brittany, Northern France
Two musicians seated on top of barrels, Brittany, Northern France. They are playing the native bagpipe or biniou (right) and a flageolet (left). 1922

A Scottish Jacobite Soldier playing the bagpipes. circa 1745

Study of Highland Piper, playing his bagpipes, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Men of the Oban Pipe Band, playing their bagpipes at the Highland Games, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Bagpipe Seller, Charing Cross, London. Date: 1900s

Peasant Kermis, c. 1665, by David Teniers the Younger (1610
David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690). Flemish painter. Peasant Kermis, c.1665. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

A French cornemuse and an Indian sarangi
Page from the Illustrated London News, 9th March 1963, showing two instruments from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: a French cornemuse

Musical instruments: the bagpipe
A bagpipe

Woman Playing the bagpipes. Palace of Catalan Music. Barcelo
Modernism. Woman Playing the bagpipes. The upper body was culpted by Eusebi Arnau (1863-1933) and the mosaic work of their lower bodies was created by Lluis Bru (1868-1952)

German Nobles C14Th
Hood-turbans, fur-lined & trimmed houppelande with bagpipe sleeves, a voluminous garment cape-like in shape but belted & worn over a gipon (the buttoned sleeves visible) Date: 14th century

Paradis Flamand 17C
LE PARADIS FLAMAND Drinking and dancing outside the village inn, while a bagpipe player provides the music Date: 17th century

New Years Day with a Highland Regiment
On the Western front, a Highland Regiment celebrate the New Year in traditional Scottish style, with sword dancing, bagpipe playing and singing. Date: 1 January 1917

Magondi music used by snake charmers
A magondi, an Indian musical wind instrument similar to a bagpipe, made from the outer coating of a gourd. Shown here in use by snake charmers

Scottish Reel / Cairo
Two Scotsmen dance a reel to the tune of a bagpipe, astonishing the natives of Cairo Date: late 19th century

A Hearing - Four Egyptian men sitting outside a Cafe have their quiet discussion rudely interrupted by a wandering (and very noisy) bagpipe player! Date: circa 1916

The trio - Music at home
Three men make music in a rustic, domestic setting

An Egyptian Concert
An Egyptian military band, with bagpipe players, drummer, a cornet player and Egyptian horn players. All the men wear a uniform of dark trousers, white jackets and red fez hats

Band of the National Waifs Association (Dr Barnardo s)
A boys band of the National Waifs Association, otherwise known as Dr Barnardo s. The instruments include hand bells, bagpipes, mandolins, and a guitar

Ww1 Irish & Scots
Three soldiers - one Irish, the other two Scots (one has a bagpipe) during World War One

Belgium 15C Dance Tree
Flemish peasants dance round a tree, to the sound of a bagpipe

Scandinavian Demons
A traveller in old Scandinavia encounters a group of faun- like demons, who invite him to join their dance and enjoy the bagpipe music Date: 1555

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