Ebay "bagpipe chanter"

Uilleann Pipes
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2579868167&category=16226




Here’s the description:

“Up for bid is an item I know nothing about and can find little or no information. I was told it is part of a bagpipe, maybe a chanter. It has three pieces. The long wooden section with the holes in it measures 10 1/4” long, and has a total of 9 finger holes. The next section is metal and measures 4 1/2" long, and plugs into the top of the wooden piece. A round 1" wooden piece, looking like a mouth piece of some sort, plugs over the metal section. The total assembled length is 14 1/2". There are strings wound tight around some of the parts. The photos should help with the description.

The wood is a dark brown, and has no damaged areas."

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If that thing’s actually for a bagpipe, then my name’s George Bush.

Looks like some kinda shawm kinda thing. Perhaps somebody could hawk it off to Lark in the Morning for a few bucks…

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GHP practice chanter???

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Absolutely looks like a shawm or relative..

Dionys

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Looks like a Turkish Zurna or something like that, a Hungarian Tarogato, a Bombarde, anything likethat definitely of the shawm family anyhow.

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Or maybe it’s one leg of a very fancy chair?

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If you widened the bore a tad and added a base you could make a nice table lamp out of it. :smiley:

djm