Cornemuse

Cornemuse by Joseph Bechonnet

Medium

Wood, ivory, sheep or cowhide, leather, velvet

Dimensions

Chanter with bell: 42.1 cm (16-1/2 in.), 3 drones: bass in 3 sections: 77.6 cm (30-5/8 in.), tenor in 2 sections: 317 cm (12-1/2 in.), treble in 2 sections: 75 cm (29-1/2 in.)

Classification

Aerophone-Reed Vibrated-bagpipe

Culture

French

Department

Musical Instruments

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889

Accession Number

89.2.165

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