Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1919 — Bagpipes Are English. [ARTICLE]

Bagpipes Are English.

It was actually a Scotsman, and no less n man thrfn the lord advocate of the time, who publicly declared 50 years ago that “the bagpipe is an English instrument, essentially English'; the English -were the original piptrs." He pointed out that, while Shakespeare often speaks of bagpipes, he never does so in “Macbeth.” and that It is in Lincolnshire -and Yorknshire that he localizes the pipes.— To Chaucer and Spenser also they are English. James TV and other Scottish kings paid for “Inglis pyparis” at theif court, while Edward 111. Henry IV and Hbnty‘Vlll seem, to have had native pipers. The Highlanders never pipes in war before the,fifteenth century;’ the harp was Scof?«hd’S instrument.