There is a lovely little Bagpipe museum in Morpeth somewhere between Alnwick and Newcastle. Where I learned of the varieties of pipes than I wanted to know and subsequently forgot more than I learned. (Don't ask me how... it is a gift).
So which came first the Northumbrian Small Pipes or the Highland pipes. If it was the North Umbrian pipes shouldn't pipes be considered more an instrument of England than of Scotland? Or do the border disputes complicate this?