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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by oldgradstudent on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:13AM (#21367988)
> Ireland gave Scotland bagpipes and the Scots didn’t get the joke.

They even spread it across the empire.

https://youtu.be/vkYbSwb0s4E

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by hackbinary on Sunday October 27, 2019 @05:39AM (#21368703)
Bagpipes are amongst one of the oldest instruments, and originated in central Asia.

Also, Japanese whisky is amazing.

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by oldgradstudent on Monday October 28, 2019 @10:54AM (#21377518)
> Bagpipes are amongst one of the oldest instruments, and originated in central Asia.

Definitely, but local bagpipes were mostly replaced with the modern Great Highland bagpipe[1], just like local bowed string instruments[2] were mostly replaced with the modern violin family.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Highland_bagpipe

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebab

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by cptnapalm on Sunday October 27, 2019 @03:01PM (#21371693)
For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.
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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by anonu on Sunday October 27, 2019 @06:49AM (#21368948)
Dabke is the traditional dance from Lebanon.

Bagpipes are Scottish (or I guess Irish).

And somehow it all ends up in Jordan. You got to love the cross-pollination of cultures.

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