There was and probably still is a Irish (as in born there) Guy here in Manchester that plays Trad tunes on a C Melody Sax, though I can't remember his name.
The Uillean Pipes Evolved from an instrument called the Pastoral Pipes invented around about 1700.
They only reached their present form in American vaudeville in the late 19th century.
None of this matters a jot; the music is always now and always ancient in that it lives, and occasionally takes us with it back to the dreamtime.
The worst thing you can do to any piece of music is, not play it.
TTFN
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