Julia wrote "Regarding blowey things, we have in New England a number of collections of fife music".

Which reminded me...
When New England was first settled by white folks most of them were Scots, who proceeded to give Scottish names to everything in sight. After a couple of decades they got peeved at what they thought of as misrule by the English and petitioned the Colonial Office in London to establish a separate Colony, which they wished to be called New Caledonia. At first they were ignored but they persisted andt later the Colonial Office relented and established a new Colony, but put the border 100 miles futher north and ensured two things;
1 every subsequent map of what the settlers wanted named "New Caledonia" was labelled, in the largest lettering, "New England" and
2 the new Colony north of the border was named "Queensland".

But there's lots of pipers and the usual parades with pipe bands. Not a lot of fife music, though.

Cheers, Rowan