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Did you know that the pipes are actually an Irish invention.... and the Scots have never figured out the joke yet?
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If I remember my history, Scotland was originally colonized by Ireland. The languages are very similar ( I am talking about scottish gaelic and irish ) with irish having undergone a spelling reform that didn't happen in scotland.
As far as pipes..their are bagpipes all over Europe. Balkan singing imitates the pipe sound as does the hurdygurdy. Its hard to say that Irish invented the pipes. irish ( Uillean?) are the most sophisticated, using a pump rather than breath to inflate them and they can produce chordal sounds.