I like bagpipes - but particularly the bagpipes of the Balkan countries. I have been to Bulgaria several times and the 'Kaba Gaida' pipes of the Rodopi mountains are particularly magnificent. They are also very loud and if someone next door to me played them regularly I might slowly go off them.
On one of my Bulgarian trips, to the Black Sea coast, I heard a smaller, squawkier set of pipes - no idea what they were called.
The thing that really sticks in my mind, about that particular trip, was the cockerells. At that time (early 90s) the area was particularly quiet with very few cars or other motorised vehicles. One morning I woke up around dawn and got out of bed to go for a pee. Returning to bed I realised that the cocks were crowing. Going out on to the balcony I realised that thousands of cocks were crowing all at once, and because of the lack of other ambient noises they were blending together into a strange, rather eery noise. It was a sort of primal, elemental sound - similar to the sound of the sea. It made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.
I haven't been back to that particular place again but believe that the Black Sea coast is becoming a bit of a boom area. I suppose all other sounds are now drowned out by the sounds of cars and all the other noises that we deafen ourselves with. No wonder some of us are intolerant of kids playing bagpipes!