For those of you who might get the wrong idea, I dont hate everything. For example, I like the Sitar..if Ravi Shankar is playing it. I love the highland pipes, as long as the piper doesn't play Amazing Grace. The pipes have a feel to them, rather than music. I'm somewhat in agreement that they may not qualify as a musical instrument, but, then, I understand that in Europe, the banjo doesnt qualify either.
Down in Rockport Maine there was an old curmudgeon who described the bag pipes thus: "They sound like someone gathered up a dog fight and threw it into a pig pen."