Nah - it's not genetic. My father who was as German as they come (he wore lieder hosen) loved the pipes. He always told my adopted sister, who is a top-notch player, that she was going to play at his funeral, piping him into church for the final time. She said it was the hardest thing she ever had to do, but the pipes had the clearest, sweetest sound, with a bit of the sadness of loss. Dad would have loved it! Prost!