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The '''pastoral pipe''' (also known as the Scottish Pastoral pipes, Hybrid Union pipes, Organ pipe and Union pipe) was a bellows-blown bagpipe, widely recognised as the forerunner and ancestor of the nineteenth-century Union pipes, which became the [[Uilleann Pipes]] of today. <ref> Brian. E. McCandless. “The Pastoral Bagpipe” Iris na bPiobairi (The pipers review) 17 (Spring 1998), 2: p. 19-28.</ref> <ref> W. Garvin. ‘The Complete Tutor for the Pastoral or New Bagpipe’, An piobaire v2 no 14pp 5-6; no 15pp 5-6;no 16pp 2-3 (1982-3)</ref> <ref>P Roberts 'Unravelling the History of the Uilleann Pipes', Common Stock. vol no2 pp11-16 (1984)</ref> Similar in design and construction, it had a foot joint in order to play a low leading note and played (in theory) a two octave chromatic scale. There is a tutor for the "Pastoral or New Bagpipe" by J. Geoghan, published in London in 1745. <ref>J Geoghan 'The Complete for the Pastoral or New Bagpipe', John Simpson, London (1746); at www.piob.infoc</ref> <ref> R. Anderson 'The Pastoral Repertoire Rediscovered', http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/pastoral.pdf </ref> Although it is now thought that Geoghan was unversed in the instrument. <ref> R. Anderson 'The Pastoral Repertoire Rediscovered', http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/pastoral.pdf </ref>

==History==