![]() ![]() Great Highland Bagpipe: This is perhaps the world's best-known bagpipe.Pastoral pipes: Although the exact origin of this keyed, or un-keyed chanter and keyed drones (regulators), pipe is uncertain, it developed into the modern uilleann bagpipe.Unlike the chanter of the Great Highland Bagpipe, its chanter is keyed, allowing for a greater tonal range. Brian Boru bagpipes: Carried by the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and had three drones, one of which was a baritone, pitched between bass and tenor.Great Irish war pipes fell out of use for centuries due to the British outlawing them, the Scottish bagpipes took the place of the Irish bagpipes role in the British army, which is when the bagpipes became wrongly associated with Scotland. The War pipe differed from the latter only in having a single tenor drone. Great Irish Warpipes: First reference to the Irish bagpipes was in 1206 Carried by most Irish regiments of the British Army or mercenaries for centuries including in Henry VIII of Englands army, up until the 1960s (except the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers) when the Great Highland Bagpipe became standard.The most common type of bagpipes in Irish traditional music. Bellows-blown bagpipe with keyed or un-keyed 2-octave chanter, 3 drones and 3 regulators. Uilleann pipes: Also known as Union pipes and Irish pipes, depending on era.Candaules Showing His Wife to Gyges (c.Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (c. ![]() Jupiter Raised by the Nymph Adrasteia (c.As the Old Sang, So the Young Pipe (Antwerp, Valenciennes 1638–1640).The Satyr and the Peasant (1620, 1625, c.Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops (1617).Peter Finding the Silver Coin in the Mouth of the Fish (1616–1634) Portrait of the Artist with his Family (c.Jordaens' depiction of himself as a bagpipe player may be interpreted as a form of self-mockery. In more formal self-portraits, Jordaens has represented himself with a lute, which in the 17th century was regarded as the noblest musical instrument. Īs Jordaens was already a successful artist when he painted the work it is not obvious why he depicted himself as a humble player of a bagpipe, an instrument used in popular music. There are at least three more works by the master (or his workshop) in which the artist's own image appears. The artist used his own image in a number of other paintings, including the version of As the Old Sing, So the Young Pipe in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes, which dates from a slightly later date than the Bagpipe player. The precise meaning of the painting has remained unclear. ![]() Even so, the painting is not regarded as a self-portrait. Jacob Jordaens sat himself as the model for the painting. It is executed in oil on canvas and measures 90 x 110 cm. The Bagpipe Player was painted 'after life' and is dated to the period of 1638-1640 or 1640-1645 depending on the sources. It is now on display in the Rubenshuis in Antwerp. ![]() It was bought in London in 2009 for 93,000 Euros by the King Baudouin Foundation with funds from the Léon Courtin-Marcelle Bouché Foundation, which also financed its restoration. The Bagpipe Player is a painting by Jacob Jordaens depicting the artist himself dressed as a musician blowing a bagpipe. ![]()
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