A couple more questions
R. Michael Litchfield
litch at eden.com
Thu Jul 20 17:21:22 PDT 1995
>> And bagpipes! That's what they were originally used for, no?
>> (In period, they were not confined to use by the Scots.)
>
>Indeed not. I have an period example of a poem about a Welsh Harper
>lamenting the fact that an *English* piper was brought in to do a
>wedding.
I believe the bagpipes have be traced to scotland from thier origin
somewhere in the fertile cresent, pakistan leaps to mind as a source of
historical piping.
>Paul Shore | shore at pp.okstate.edu
-michael
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