Mr. wrote on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:21:14 -0700:


> Adam Hunt wrote:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8180791.stm
>>
>> Haggis is English, historian says
>>
>> A haggis recipe was published in an English book almost two
>> hundred years before any evidence of the dish in Scotland, an
>> historian has claimed.

> Ever seen French bag pipes?

> They look, structurally just like Scottish bag pipes, but in
> Normandy, where they are still played, they often have the
> wood of the pipes painted white with some light gilding,
> touches of gold on the white paint and love brocaded and
> brightly colored fabric for the air bladder.

> The example i saw was a 1700's rococo bag pipes, very pretty.
> Unfortunately they sound just as dreadful as the Scottish versions

Do they work like Northumbrian or Irish pipes with a kind of arm
operated bellows? I've even seen a picture of a gentleman of the court
of Louis XIV of France playing such pipes. Both of those are less of an
outdoor instrument than the Scottish pipes.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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