Leadpipes

I take a few classes on Irish traditional music and song with groups of foreign students (various European, some Chinese) studying in the college where I teach. One of the first things I do is to play a CD track of uilleann pipes - and ask them what kind of instrument they think it is. On one occasion I spotted a student, with her eyes closed, making a crcular movement with one hand - thinking of hurdy-gurdy!

Regards

p.s. Can't remember if we acknowledged in another thread that "uilleann" (often thought to refer to "elbow", since its the Irish word for same) is a bit of a misnomer, invented by an ancestor of a colleague of mine, about a hundred years ago.