I've a clear mental image of seeing somewhere, a photograph of an old street musician playing what looked very like a strung kipper box. He was holding it like a fiddle.
I'm sure the staff at the Irish Traditional Music Archive would be able to help with this query, Dru. My apologies for introducing a non-piping flavour with the `kipper box' reference in my original posting. It's a phrase common in our family to describe a fiddle that sounds distinctly ropey - my great great aunt Nellie from Woodhorn used it when talking about a local fiddle player, and it's stuck ever since. Margaret -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
