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Thread #158924   Message #3762390
Posted By: Les in Chorlton
02-Jan-16 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: Uileann pipes and Louis XIV
Subject: RE: Uileann pipes and Louis XIV
Looks to me as if all kinds of pipes, blown with the mouth and with bellows have been kicking around farming communities for hundreds if not thousands of years.

The thing about the Uileann Pipes is they are very high tech. I don't think the metal parts could be made by a blacksmith with a hammer and anvil - which would be the case before the Industrial Revolution.

Ready to be corrected