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Ill.u.s.trations of bag-pipes are found in the miniatures of the following MSS. in the British Museum.--2 B. VII. f. 192 and 197; Add. MS. 34,294 (the _Sforza Book_), f. 62, vol. i.; Burney, 275, f. 715; Add. MS. 17,280, f.

238^b; Add. MS. 24,686 (_Tennyson Psalter_), f. 17^b; Add. MS. 17,280, f.

82^b; Add. MS. 24,681, f.44; Add. MS. 32,454; Add. MS. 11,867, f38; &c. &c.

(K. S.)

[1] See E. G. Graff, _Deutsche Interlinearversionen der Psalmen_ (from a 12th-cent. Windberg MS. at Munich), p. 384, Ps. lx.x.x. 2. ”nemet den Sulmen unde gebet den Suegdbalch.”

[2] These harmonics may be obtained by good performers by what is known as ”pinching” or only partially covering the B and C holes and increasing the wind pressure.

[3] The notes marked with asterisks are approximately a quarter of a tone sharp.

[4] ”Complete Tutor for attaining a thorough knowledge of the pipe music,”

prefixed to _A Collection of the Ancient Martial Music of Caledonia called Piobaireachd, as performed on the Great Highland Bag-pipe_, Edinburgh, _c._ 1805.

[5] Paper on ”The Musical Scales of Various Nations,” by Alex. J. Ellis, F.R.S., _Jrnl. Soc. Arts_, 1885, vol. x.x.xiii. p. 499.

[6] _Tutor for the Highland Bag-pipe_, by David Glen (Edinburgh, 1899).

[7] _Tutor for the Highland Bag-pipe_, by Angus Mackay (Edinburgh, 1839).

[8] _A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd or Highland Pipe Music_ by Angus Mackay (Edinburgh, 1839), p. 128.

[9] _A Collection of Piobaireachd or Pipe Tunes as verbally taught by the McCrummen Pipers on the Isle of Skye to their apprentices_, as taken from John McCrummen (or Crimmon) by Niel MacLeod of Gesto, Skye (Edinburgh, 1880).

[10] Albyn's _Anthology_, vol. i. p. 90.

[11] _Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition_, London, 1890, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1891, pl.

ix. A, and description p. 57.

[12] _Ancient Laws of Ireland, Brehon Law Tracts_, published by the Commissioners for publis.h.i.+ng the Ancient Laws and Inst.i.tutions of Ireland (Dublin, 1879), vol. iv. pp. 338 and 339.

[13] John Derrick, _Image of Ireland and Discoverie of Woodkarne_ (London, 1581), pl. ii.

[14] _L'Harmonie universelle_, vol. ii. bk. v. pp. 282-287 and 305 (Paris, 1636-1637).

[15] _Syntagma Music.u.m_, part ii., _De Organographia_ (Wolfenb.u.t.tel, 1618); republished in Band xiii. of the _Publicationen der Gesellschaft fur Musikforschung_ (Berlin, 1884), chap. xix. and pl. v., xi., xiii.

[16] See E. Thoinan, _Les Hotteterre et les Chedeville, celebres facteurs de flutes, hautbois, ba.s.sons et musettes_ (Paris, 1894), p. 23. It is probable, however, that M. Thoinan, who makes this statement, has not considered the possibility of the word _musette_ applying in this case to the small rustic hautbois or _dessus de bombarde_, also written _muse_, _muset_, _musele_, which occurs in many ballads of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. See Fr. G.o.defroy, _Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue francaise du IX^e au XV^e siecle_ (Paris, 1888).

[17] Musettes de Poitou; probably the _cornemuses_ used in concert with the Hautbois de Poitou.

[18] _Op. cit._ vol. ii. bk. v. pp. 287-292.

[19] See Ernest Thoinan, _op. cit._ pp. 15 et seq. (cf. Jules Ecorcheville, ”Quelques doc.u.ments sur la musique de la Grande ecurie du Roi” in _Intern.

Mus. Ges._, Sammelband ii. 4, p. 625 and table 2, ”Grands Hautbois”).

[20] _Methode pour la musette_, &c., by Hotteterre le Romain (Paris, 1737), 4to, chap. xvi.

[21] _Traite de la musette avec une nouvelle methode_, &c. (Lyons, 1672), pp. 25-27 and plate. A copy of this work is in the British Museum.