YES ,But then the piper should try and tune to You if they can. I normally enjoy playing with piers if they are in concert pitch,Ithink the two instruments have quite alot in common,drones can be used successfully on the english for small sections of a tune perhaps two bars or a bar,plus the sound of the regulators can be imitated ,using fifths d and a together,OCTAVE TRIPLETS are nice too.
Fiddle rolls are quite difficult to execute in reels,it is important to keep the two notes you are cutting with, as staccato as possible,sometimes I do two cuts wtith the same note,if Iwas cutting a d [on my left],i might cut d e ded.or de da d[both of these can be done with the index finger,or a proper roll d e d csh d[this involves the weaker third finger for the c sharp note.