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Henderson Bagpipes - Pipe Major John Gillies

Peter Henderson Bagpipes - belonging to Pipe Major John Gillies. The pipes are made of African Blackwood, and have ivory projecting mounts; the ferrules and and drone caps are silver and have thistle motifs engraved on them. A miniature version of the Seaforth capbadge (stag head, ducal coronet, cipher and motto: Cuidich 'N Righ) has been mounted in silver on the blowpipe stock. Beneath the stag is a silver plaque which reads: "Presented to - Pipe Major J. Gillies, M.S.M., - on the - Completion of 21 Years - Service - With the - Seaforth Highlanders of Canada - By the Members of the Regiment - Past and Present - 1933." These pipes were purchased for Pipe Major Mitch Bain as a child; he played them as a cadet, as a piper with the Seaforth Highlanders, and eventually as Pipe Major. When Bain retired from the unit in 2018 he donated his pipes to the museum. In 2018 Gillies' pipes underwent a restoration by Lee and Sons Bagpipes. The stocks were reamed, the bass stock and blowpipe were sleeved, the tenor bottoms were resized, the silver slides were refitted, the tuning boxes were reamed and trued, the drone caps, bushings and ferrules were refitted, and a slide was fitted to the mouthpiece. After the 2018 restoration, these pipes were issued to Pipe Major Dan Bell.
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