Niteowl, I shall make a point of using my fake scottish accent around you. ^^
And I have that thingy with picking up accents too. It's particularly funny with danish. The danes, knowing that theirs is a very small country, make a big fuss out of their regional differences. And in fact, the language varies a great lot from east to west (and to a lesser extent, from north to south). Two weeks with my cousins and nephews in Copenhagen was all it took for me to get infected with their particular (and peculiar) dialect.
And as for the bagpipes: Nope, the scots didn't invent them. Bagpipes were known in Europe long before the scots came up with the now (in)famous "warpipe", as Uranium's picture shows it. While bagpipes slowly died out across Europe, they survived in Scotland because of their close association with the military. What differentiates the warpipes from most other sorts of bagpipes is that the warpipes feature a tube for blowing into, while most other bagpipes were supplied with air through bellows.
