“Steel Engraving with hand color.” Looks like he’s gonna get him some!
Hello. Nein dizbatcher says zere iss problem mit deine kable.
How unusual for a piper!!..His dad must have money. :roll: -g
Pastoral pipes, not union pipes. Look at the foot joint, and the fact that he’s playing them off the knee - way off the knee. 
djm
Maybe he’s a very flash traveller 
They are Pastoral Pipes.
Being off the knee has nothing to do with it as the Union Pipes can be played off the knee as well as on and can be played standing up.
Uilliam
or maybe he’s just pleased to see her 
No no, the engraving is actually called “The Union Pipes.”
http://www.haleysteele.com/hs_root/gallery/artwork.cfm/stockid/22209/pd/2
given that they look neither like union pipes nor pastoral pipes and if we’re going to be pedants about it, check where the drones are laying - over his arms; that’s RSI waiting to happen - we’ll just have to go by the title. So they’re Union Pipes. Never rely on a painter to reproduce an acurate image of any sort of bagpipes - probably not the goal in this painting. His aim was to portray the piper with the lady more than anything I suspect. Given the drone size and position I would have first said something like Parlour pipes.
DavidG
Could be Northumbrian… looks to be key’s on that chanter
It’s likely that the drones are an artistic euphemism and not intended as an accurate representation of the instrument at the time.
Dionys
My point exactly
Now, now, lads. To paraphrase the good Dr. Freud, sometimes a drone is just a drone.
…ouch…
So THATs why they call them small pipes!
My first thought was they were border pipes.
-g
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What man would say such a thing…Gasp…Perhaps one that did not grow up in America? If I said that out loud the whole motorcity would jump me.
To live where I do it is required to have gas in your veins. (please no political response is needed from anyone about Americans and oil or gas. ) Just the area I live in some people treat their cars like family often even better.
Oh…you don’t have to grow up in America (although I was born there - I’ve been an American roughly 6 months longer than I’ve been an Australian).
We have plenty of motorheads, petrolheads, rev-heads…whatever you like to call them…bogans, townies, westies, bevans (they’re all terms for much the same type person with love for their veh-hickle) in my neighbourhood. This is just a common rib-dig, tongue-in-cheek cynical ‘observation’ usually vocalised by unimpressed females
ausdag- I figured that there was a good chance you were from America or lived there. That is why I put the ? I have known many to go over and never return. 
As far as the whole tongue-in-cheek cynical ‘observation’ thing I’ve heard it a fair amount in my short time. I had to say something, I got my first car at 10 ( note she was a project car for me and my dad) None the less though she was a car with a big ol’ engine.
The first automobile, of sorts, that I drove was a tractor. It was an old red Ford tractor. Big engine but very slow. Temperamental too.