Quote Originally Posted by Steeplechase
Yes, I saw the segment on the piper. They also stated that the orginal curling stones were hewn from a mountain in Scotland. Sorry I don't remember which mount.
That would be Ailsa Craig, a small rocky island in the Firth of Clyde off of Ayrshire:

For more than 240 years, they've used regulation stones weighing 42 pounds, and each one has come from Ailsa Craig Island, off the coast of Scotland. Curler Geoffrey Broadhurst explains.

"The Ailsa Craig is an old volcano, and there's nothing there except this old volcano, They quarry the rock there, and it happens to be absolutely the hardest rock you can get. There's no pores in it, and these stones can crash into each other, and there's not a chip. These stones here have been going since 1967 and they're absolutely in great shape. They don't have any pores in it, so therefore the frost doesn't get in there to chip the stones either, so it's an amazing structure."

-- http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Oct02/2781.html
The UK curling team is mostly Scots as well.

Cheers,

Todd