• Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Wait, this is real lmao. He doesn't know where bagpipes are from?? And Biden is like 3rd or 4th generation Irish anyway...

    And he may be distantly related to some assholes who worked for the East India Company.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Bagpipes are from ireland too, Look up uilleann pipes!

      That said, these are Scottish pipes.

    • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I've been playing bagpipes for 10+ years now and I still don't understand how they got the Irish association when the instrument most people think of (great highland bagpipes) is 100% a Scottish instrument. As someone else said, there are Irish bagpipes, but it's not what most people think of when they are imagining bagpipes.

      Like St. Patrick's Day should not have bagpipes associated with it, but I make a lot of money in March so I'm not going to complain.

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        In america, a lot of "irish" settlers were from ireland after moving there from Scotland, and brought scotch musical traditions with them