Tour Scotland Video Scottish Bagpiper Busking Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Bagpiper playing on the Royal Mile at the Festival Fringe on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. The bagpipe is first attested in Scotland around 1400 AD, having previously appeared in European artwork in Spain in the 13th century. The earliest references to bagpipes in Scotland are in a military context, and it is in that context that the Great Highland bagpipe became established in the British military and achieved the widespread prominence it enjoys today, whereas other bagpipe traditions throughout Europe, ranging from Portugal to Russia, almost universally went into decline by the late 19th and early 20th century.

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