When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.'
There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.
The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.
The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started