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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
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2MUSETTE, French. 17th century. This beautiful instrument is in tuning and make identical with No. 126. The chanters, however, are of ebony, with ivory tips. The barrel differs slightly from that of No. 126, in that it has spaces for four reeds only. The bag is covered with silk brocade and edged with black silk fringe. It is inflated by bellows, the sides of which are beautifully inlaid with devices of fruit, flowers, and butterflies.
4Lent by Messrs. J. and R. Glen.
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7CORNEMUSE, French. 17th century. The cornemuse differs from the musette, in that it is of simpler construction, and is inflated from the mouth. The drone and chanter are of ivory, and are fixed parallel in one stock. The chanter is pierced with nine finger-holes in front and a thumb-hole at back. The drone was tuned by means of a stopper. The bag is covered with red silk brocade, worked with flowers and fringed with gold lace.
9The usual compass of the cornemuse was
11or to the e'' above, the drone being tuned in unison with c'. The cornemuse frequently had another drone, giving the octave lower, mounted in a separate stock. Instruments of this description were in use in the 16th and 17th centuries, and were usually played in consort with other wind instruments called in France "Hautbois de Poitou," the reeds of which were enclosed within a cap, as in the cromorne. Père Mersenne, in his Harmonie Universelle, gives a Cantilena in four parts, the upper of which is taken by the cornemuse, the others by the instruments just mentioned. Plate IX., fig. E.
13Lent by C. Van Raalte, Esq.
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16LOWLAND BAGPIPE, Scotch. 18th century. The bag is covered with red velvet, and is inflated by the mouth. The chanter, made of
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