TV Programme - History of the bagpipes

[OC Richard]

I really wonder how they present the "history of the bagpipe."

I see the same flights of the imagination presented as "history" over and over, and through sheer repetition these myths gain a legitimacy they don't deserve.

It would be refreshing if someone, for once, were to stick to the known facts (there aren't many) and look to principles used in genetics and linguistics (such as the age-area hypothesis) to approach the subject in a more scientific way.

I would be dumbfounded if anyone were to do that. It's always the same mythology, unsupported by anything in the way of evidence.