Frankham--the clans were a genuine part of Scottish society. The tartans associated with those clans today are , in the greater part, fairly recent invention. [The bonnet flash was a much more common indication of belonging]. The national instrument of Scotland is not the 'Great Pipes", but the fiddle.Folk music is simply what folk sing and play. "Traditional" folk music, however, is ethnic in origin, and is a different branch of "folk".