…before yeez all go running off to the Berlitz Language School in search of translations for the header up there… it paraphrases into English (which, by the way is the ultimate foreign language for emb’dy else on the planet, but we’ll discuss that another day), simply as, ’Scots? who’s like us? damn few and they’re all dead’… there can be few other nations past or present who have given freely to the WURLD of ’strangenesses’… these peculiarities are a boon to the rest of Mankind inasmuch as they exercise yer brains… make yeez ponder, ‘What?’, ‘Why?’ or p’raps even ‘WTF?’… who else could transform an instrument that resembles a tartan-clad octopus into a delivery mechanism for the music of the Gods?…
…a lone piper on a castle battlement, playing the pibroch will stir the soul even of a moribund English politician (well, p’raps that’s pushing it too far…
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