For me - there is something mystical and awe inspiring about the bagpipes. I like to tell the story (supposedly true) from 1967 when the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retook the town of Crater in Aden by marching in in the early hours of the morning and not a shot was fired. At dawn the Pipes and Drums of the Battalion played on the roof of one of the highest buildings. The Argyll & Sutherland's had no problems from the local population after that. If that is not a measure of the power of the bagpipe, I don't know what else there is.

Brian