Editing Border pipes (section)

{{Short description|Type of Scottish bagpipe}}
[[File:Border pipes played by Fin Moore.webm|thumb|18th-century set of border pipes played by Fin Moore]]

The '''border pipes''' are a type of [[bagpipe]] related to the Scottish [[Great Highland Bagpipe]]. It is perhaps confusable with the [[Scottish smallpipe]], although it is a quite different and much older instrument. Although most modern '''Border pipes''' are closely modelled on similar historic instruments, the modern [[Scottish smallpipe]]s are a modern reinvention, inspired by historic instruments but largely based on [[Northumbrian smallpipes]] in their construction.

The name, which is modern, refers to the [[Anglo-Scottish Border]] region, where the instrument was once common, so much so that many towns there used to maintain a piper. The instrument was found much more widely than this, however; it was noted as far north as [[Aberdeenshire]], south of the Border in [[Northumberland]] and elsewhere in the [[Northern England|north of England]].  Indeed, some late 17th-century paintings, such as a tavern scene<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/history/380-another-17th-century-piper|title=LBPS &#124; Another 17th Century Piper|website=lbps.net}}</ref> by [[Egbert van Heemskerck]], probably from south-eastern England, show musicians playing such instruments. Other names have been used for the instrument: ''Lowland pipes'' and ''[[reel pipes]]'' in Scotland, and ''half-long pipes'' in Northumberland and Durham.  However, the term ''reel pipes'' historically refers to instruments similar to Highland pipes, but primarily intended for indoor use.

While the instrument had been widespread in the 18th century, by the late 19th century it was no longer played. There was an attempted revival in [[north-east England]] in the 1920s and new instruments were created for [[Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle Royal Grammar School]], [[Officers' Training Corps#Northumbrian|Durham University OTC]], and Northumberland Boy Scouts.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Colls |first1=Robert |title=Northumbria: History and Identity 547-2000 |date=2019 |publisher=Phillimore & Co Ltd |isbn=978-0750990431}}</ref> The term  ''half-long pipes'' is now used to refer specifically to surviving Northumbrian examples from this period;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-579-670-C|title=National Museums of Scotland - Set of Northumbrian or Half-long bagpipes|website=Nms.scran.ac.uk|access-date=12 January 2021}}</ref> these were in part modelled on an 18th-century set which had belonged to [[Muckle Jock Milburn]], and is now in the [[Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum]];<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/archive.MOR~MOPBM~41 |title=Collection Detail |access-date=2017-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905010611/http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/archive.MOR~MOPBM~41 |archive-date=2017-09-05 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> however, they were given a different drone configuration.