Pitchpipe
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Mahogany
Measurements
37 mm (Width) x 40 mm (Depth); 440 mm (Length)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1335395.1
Summary
Pitchpipe (the longest of four), anonymous,19th century. Mahogany, square section, tapering cylindrical mouthpiece. Plunger with turned, tapering end and ball finial. No calibrations on plunger. In notebook no.4, page 7 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Music Room 62. Pitchpipe mahogany from Bath Abbey.'
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 7