I think the bagpipes in that video are an Eastern European type so it's even more mixed up than they say. The tune is Irish, played in a Scottish style, and the dancing in kilts seems to be a mashup of Irish and Highland. The bit of cultural fusion nobody wants to talk about is that Highland pipes are actually English - first played in Scotland in the late 1400s and soon abandoned in England (where the quieter central European type of bagpipe hung on for longer). These guys led off a Scottish independence march in Glasgow a few years back. VIP Dholies
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