Song: Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling...
from glen to glen and down the mountain side.
The uilleann pipes is a very highly developed type of bagpipe. Originating in the early 1700s, it developed through the 1800s in Ireland, and within Irish communities abroad, to become the modern instrument. It is a complex instrument, with aspects of its musical functionality found nowhere else.
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