It’s always a challenge to look beyond the obvious and pull secrets out of these old bagpipes. Here we see cocuswood, with bone and horn fixtures. We see many small beads and we see coming with ten teeth standing. We see beads cut into the wood just above the lower projecting mounts on the tenor bottoms. A single scribe line is cut into the wood above the lower mount on the bass bottom. There is nice consistency in the profiles of the projecting mounts and there is a projecting mount and other “oddities” at the top of the blowpipe. Whoever made this was an exceptional craftsman.
