"Mr Cheape argues that following the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his men, educated and wealthy expatriate Scots living in London tried to keep the flame of nationhood burning and in 1778 founded the Highland Society of London with the aim of “preserving the martial spirits, language, dress, music and antiquities of the ancient Caledonians”
Many of the Scots who were fighting with Bonnie Prince Charles were forced to leave Scotland...many settled in North Carolina and began harvesting rosen/pitch from the native pine trees that would be used in ship repair.
The term 'Tar Heels' can be traced to these early Scots.
At one time, North Carolina was world renowned for ship repair quality and ship building expertise. (Wooden ships)
I learned of a group of direct descendants of these Scots living in a remote part of North Carolina (said to still be speaking “Elizabethan English”, among other things). At one point the British had confiscated all their bagpipes as the music was thought to foment rebellion.
In a small church in the mountains the congregation substituted their own voices: men as the drone pipes and the women as the chanter. I actually heard on NPR this group singing (playing?) “Amazing Grace”. No words, just human sounds evoking the lost bagpipes.
The sound was unique, to say the least.