Scottish Bagpipes

The sunny highlands are all astir with the march of the masters of wind who whistle out the tunes of their beloved country and dance until the dawn. Hearty hands hurry across the holes of the pipe and pull the spirits of the townsfolk up into the sky where they all dance and sing as one. No better kind of celebration can be made as the one here, along the fairest isles of the north, with the warmth of bracken and bold brews to keep the flesh and soul alight. In the early part of the second millennium, bagpipes began to appear with frequency in European art and iconography. Actual examples of bagpipes from before the 18th century are extremely rare; however, a substantial number of paintings, carvings, engravings, manuscript illuminations, and so on survive. They make it clear that bagpipes varied hugely throughout Europe, and even within individual regions. Many examples of early folk bagpipes in Continental Europe can be found in the paintings of Brueghel, Teniers, Jordaens and Durer. This sound uses the following file from Freesound:http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=106570