Name of Instrument: bagpipe

Maker / Brand: L. Franciolini shop

Stearns Catalog #: 0688

Country of Origin: Italy

Region of Origin: Europe

Instrument Category: Aerophone

Date of Fabrication: 19th C. (Franciolini label on stock)

Location: AER K 9

Description: This instrument comes to the Stearns Collection from a highly questionable source--Leopoldo Franciolini. Many Franciolini instruments are forgeries or interesting hybrids of original instruments and scrap wood. This Bagpipe is made of boxwood pipes with horn ferrules fastened with boxwood pegs. It has a goatskin bag; the round boxwood stock holds four pipes. It has two chanters, each with four crudely cut finger holes. It has twinned R4 and L4 tone holes. It is made with threaded joints; it has two drone pipes. The piece bears the mark of being tainted: the red paper stamp of the Franciolini shop.

Research: Prof. James M. Borders