Stock and horn

Stock and horn obs. pastoral hornpipe of S. Scotland, similar to the Welsh pibcorn but not identical with the stockhorn. The tube was of wood or bone, with a horn bell, mouth bell, and single reed. Only 2 original specimens have survived: these have wooden tubes with 7 front fingerholes and a rear thumbhole, horn bells, and a wooden cap over the reed. One of them has a double bore, with 7 front fingerholes and 1 rear fingerhole on each pipe, so disposed that a pair can be closed by one finger…