The joys and dangers of Ebay pipes

[WalesLax]

About the "stories" that come with pipes, I think generally those are bogus. I've seen so many pipes on Ebay said to have been "recovered from a WWI battlefield" that after the Great War the ground must have been so covered with bagpipes that you couldn't walk without stepping on them.

Oh, and pipes "played in the Boar War" (sic)

I 100% get your point that it is difficult to believe, verify, or care about the backstory, but I enjoy hearing/reading them.

I can not find either right now, but my two favorite stories were 1) a set of pipes played in a Bollywood movie, and 2) a set of pipes signed and once played by Roddy Roddy Piper, the wrestler.

A long, long time ago, I was studying US Civil War research, and one of the professors or speaker said shared the fact that they had documented more unique battlefield-used swords in museums or for sale (over some specific time period) than the number of swords that were issued by both sides combined. I can imagine it now - "thank you for volunteering.... listen, we don't have shoes to issue you right now, but why don't you go ahead and take two swords and a set of bagpipes; that should be just as good!"

Rob