Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
A pipe band never fails to stir my blood and a lone piper,playing well,needs to be at least 100 yards away to get the notes just so,for my hearing anyway.There is nothing better.
I agree with that. I love the sound of pipes but alone they can sometimes be a bit much for my ears. However, the addition of drums changes it entirely and it is my preferred "style" of pipe music. There are a few exceptions to this of course - amazing grace by a lone piper is truly moving.

Quote Originally Posted by Wompet View Post
Scottish pipes, Irish pipes, English pipes, Spanish pipes, French pipes, Italian pipes, Czech pipes ...
but Polish pipes not so much.
A few years back I spent 6 months in Bulgaria and was completely astonished to find that one of their traditional instruments was a set of bagpipes. I had always thought of bagpipes as a strictly Scottish instrument until then.