A couple more questions

[Stephen Fischer]

quoth Mark Harris:
| 
| And bagpipes! That's what they were originally used for, no?
| (In period, they were not confined to use by the Scots.)

I recently saw the Fureys in concert.  One of them played the Uillean
pipes and commented (as close as I could tell - his accent was rather
extreme, even for the Irish in our group) that the Scottish bagpipes
is descended from this instrument.  Is this true, possible, or just 
another Irishman telling a tall story?  He certainly told enough of them
during the concert, but this one sounds at least plausible.

Etienne

-- 
Though the night was made for loving,
  And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
  By the light of the moon.