Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Bagpipes



When one thinks of bagpipes they think of Scots with their kilts and tassels on playing in such movies such as Braveheart before a major battle. This would lead one to believe that it was in fact the Scots who invented the bagpipes, but this is wrong. It was, in fact, the Romans who invented or at least brought over the bagpipes to Briton during the conquest of Britannia. We know this because in Suetonius account of the Fire of Rome he says that Nero was playing tibia utricularis which is basically the Latin word for what we know today as the bagpipes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A748208

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