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Bagpipes pre-date written records, possibly making them the oldest wind instruments still in use today. The musical tradition among the Highlanders dates back at least eight centuries, but the origin remains obscure.
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Pipers and the bardic tradition are closely enmeshed: it is expected that a piper will have as great a repertoire of music as a bard does of stories. Pipers and bards regularly compete in 'flyting' exchanges, a tradition they may have received from the Northlandérs.
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Bagpipes or instruments much like them are common all over the Isles, including in Loegria. This is all the more surprising, since King Edmund has issued a decree banning the playing of such music anywhere within his realm.
