There is evidence that a family called MacCrimmon had a Piping School in Borreraig in the Isle of Skye as far back as the late 1500's. The old type of bagpipe music is called Piobaireachd (pronounced Peebrock) and is based on the Human voice, or the bagpipe trying to re create the human voice or singing ( called Cantaireachd.pronounced Can ter a ght). Many folk and some of them experts reckon this is rubbish !!! That there has always been Bagpipes in Scotland of one type or another. He liked the sound of the Pipes he was playing (they would sound a lot flatter in tone, and would be made out of local Wood) He took him back to the Clan lands of Dunveagan in the Isle of Skye and got him too teach the Highlanders how to play the pipes. Chief of Clan MacLeod was out in the Holy Lands in the 1600's when he captured a Bagpiper in the enemy forces. The first bagpipers in Scotland were said to have come from Italy, from a place called Cremona. Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Israel, etc etc. each country has its own claim to a Type of bagpipe, i.e. Well there are many theories about the origin of the bagpipe.

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