I've enjoyed the sound of the pipes for as long as I can remember. I only discovered the piercing quality of bagpipes recently when I pulled up beside one of those "pimpmobiles", at a stoplight, with the roof pulsing from the loud and obnoxious rap music he was blasting for everyone in the next state to have to hear. I cranked up the bagpipe music I was playing on my CD player, and he rolled up the window. My radio did not have a big power amp like he did, but it did have "power pipes" on the CD.