Displaying Bagpipes

[EagleJCS]

A lot depends on how you want them to appear and how much wall space you have to cover.

As a piper, I'm not yet ready to hang my pipes up for display, but I have thought about how it could be done once I'm no longer able to play. When I was playing on a regular basis, I used a guitar stand like Macman to keep them handy. I added a little bit of foam insulation to the top and lay my bass drone across it, letting the tenor drones and bag hang free.

If you want to hang them so that they're fully open as if on a piper's shoulder, then I'd use some large screw hooks and some black thread/string or even Velcro cord ties snugly secured around each drone in several places. Hang the threads from the hooks. I'd try to distribute the weight of the pipes so that no one point or drone carries much weight. Some smaller cup hooks could be used for the drone cords or ribbon to help splay them out a bit. The bass drone would need to be more on a diagonal rather than straight up and down as it would actually be in a playing situation.

A simple shelf wide enough to lay them on would do if you just want them out to be seen.


Whatever you do, don't drive anything through the pipes or the bag!