Bagpipes

Bagpipes

Bagpipes are only named in connection with the hare playing on them.

Argent, three hares sejant playing upon bagpipes gules--HOPWELL, Devon.

Argent, three hares sejant gules, playing upon bagpipes or--FITZ-ERCALD, Derby.

[The illustration of a hare playing upon the bagpipes is from MS. Harl. 6563, written in the fourteenth century.]