Cape Fear as the name for a centre of Highland Piping - sounds fitting enough.

Pipes of Cremona - I wonder if Stradivarius ever turned his hands to making a set.

I see the tendency to think of the pipes as a particularly Scottish or Celtic instrument is current even here, whereas most European countries, and many Middle Eastern have one or two in their tradition. And the Warpipes are only one of the types of pipes current in Scotland, and they are pretty the only type of bagpipes which are intended to be played at high volume to get their full effect.

As for the difficulty of making pipes - well there are lots of fine pipes being made these days by craftsmen who are pretty skillful, but no more so I'd say than those making other instruments.

I suppose it's something to do with the timing and circumstances of emigration. Which makes even more puzzling the apparent failure of the French in Quebec to hold on to the bagpipes, because here you had a rural community established at the time when the bagpipes were at their height of popularity in France, and then conquered and occupied by the English in a way that, I'd have thought, would have guaranteed that the musette would take on the same kind of cultural significance that the bagpipes did in the Highlands.